 | 1823 - 886 pàgines
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In -that vast expanse of desert, from VV. to NW. of us, we saw a , number of prodigious pillars of sand at different 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... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pàgines
...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 with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very... | |
 | Josiah Priest - 1825 - 660 pàgines
...the morning, we nc o'clock •W6, havud tejrriof the ni it in the world, om NW of us. vesawa numher of prodigious pillars of sand at different 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... | |
 | 1826 - 638 pàgines
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 pàgines
...surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to V W. of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in a very few... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 560 pàgines
...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 great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pàgines
...most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to northwest of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different 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... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pàgines
...the world. In the vast expanse of desert from west to north-west of us, we saw a prodigious number of pillars of sand at different distances; at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1832 - 494 pàgines
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In the 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 with great celerity, at others stately or with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought thev were coming in a very... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 pàgines
...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, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very... | |
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... with a 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... 
