 We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with...  Thalaba the destroyer - Pàgina 215per Robert Southey - 1809Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1852 - 388 pàgines
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of deserlpfrom west and to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes... | |
 | 1852 - 702 pàgines
...having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillais of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pàgines
...deserts of Africa, he observes, " We were here at once surprised and terrified with a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to the northwest of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1853 - 468 pàgines
...dreadful sand-tpouis mmed. — P. 154. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | 1854 - 388 pàgines
...having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at oncesurprised and terrified by a sight, surely one of the. most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west and to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pàgines
...is by an eyewitness : — " We were here at once surprised and terrified with a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from the west and to the north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pàgines
...having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from the west to the north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances,... | |
 | James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - 1859 - 924 pàgines
...manner : " We were here (in the deserts of Africa) at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to the north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pàgines
...having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
 | James Bruce - 1860 - 442 pàgines
...travelling about twenty miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at one time moving... | |
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