 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
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 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, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at one time moving with great... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1854 - 914 pàgines
...Charles Bell, as stated in pages 31 and .15 of his " Bridge-water Treatise." JRT.LBN. PILLARS OF SAND. WK saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different...distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others, stalking with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1994 - 460 pàgines
...North of Wadi el Halboub, he relates, he was "at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse...distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness." Bruce tried to study the immense sanddevils, but emotion overcame... | |
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