 ... 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
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pàgines
...lew 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 clcuds. Here the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - 1876 - 328 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 heads reaching the very clouds ; then the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined,... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pàgines
...stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming to overwhelm us ; and again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight,...often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjointed, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pàgines
...He. Ir. 27. b Ewalcfs trans. is, "Howbeit will not a man in 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. Their tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 654 pàgines
...should be overwhelmed ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach them. Again, they would retreat so as -to be almost out of sight, their summits reaching to the very clouds. Their tops often separated from the bodies; and these, when disjointed,... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 pàgines
...intervals, he thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm him and his companions. Again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight,...; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, a-ud appeared no more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon-shot.... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1854 - 914 pàgines
...few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did more than once actually reach us. Again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight,...tops often separated from the bodies ; and these once disjointed, dispersed, and did not once appear again. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as... | |
 | Paul Hulton, F. Nigel Hpper, Ib Friis - 1991 - 364 pàgines
...slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ... Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds." When at dawn the sun's rays hit the sands it "gave them an appearance of moving pillars of fire...... | |
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