 ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to...  Thalaba the Destroyer: A Rhythmical Romance - Pàgina 222per Robert Southey - 1812Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. Then the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these were disjoined, dispersed in the air, and... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us ; again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching the very clouds ; then the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed... | |
 | LIEUT-COLONEL W. REID - 1850 - 580 pàgines
...few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reachiug to the very clouds. Then the tops often separated from the bodies; and these once disjoined,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually reach us more than once : again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds ; then the summits often separated from the bodies, and these . once disjoined, dispersed in air, and... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 696 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight,...and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cannon-shot. About noon they began to advance with considerable... | |
 | 1852 - 702 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. The:e the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1854 - 472 pàgines
...intervals he thought they were coming, in a very few minutes, to overwhelm him and his companion. Again, they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight,...; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, .-i ml appeared no more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon-shot.... | |
 | 1854 - 388 pàgines
...quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us A.gain they would retreat so as to be almost.out of sight — their tops reaching to the very clouds....; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air^ ami did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us (and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us) ; again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight,...disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear any more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon shot. About... | |
 | Moulton Hampton (pseud.?), Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - 1855 - 336 pàgines
...minutes to overwhelm us, and smalt quantities of sand did actually reach us more than once : again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds ; then the summits often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed in air, and... | |
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