 | 1856 - 330 pàgines
...disjoined, dispersed in air, and did not appear more ; sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cannon-shot. At noon they began...the greatest diameter of the largest appeared to me as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression... | |
 | Moulton Hampton, Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - 1856 - 332 pàgines
...did not appear more ; sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cuimon-shot. At noon they began to advance with considerable swiftness...the greatest diameter of the largest appeared to me as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at south-cast, leaving an impression... | |
 | Henry E. Davenport - 1857 - 336 pàgines
...disjoined, dispersed in air, and did not appear more ; sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cannon-shot. At noon they began...the greatest diameter of the largest appeared to me aa if it would measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1859 - 356 pàgines
...to advance with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged alongside of us about the distance of three...measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at SE, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in... | |
 | James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - 1859 - 924 pàgines
...to advance: with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged alongside of us about the distance of three, miles. The greatest diameter «;f the largest appeared to me at that distance, as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pàgines
...to advance with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged alongside of us about the distance of three...measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at. S. £. leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient... | |
 | James Bruce - 1860 - 442 pàgines
...considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged along side of us, about the distance of three miles. The greatest...measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at SE, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pàgines
...them, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of these awful visitors ranged alongside of them, at about the distance of three miles. The greatest diameter of the largest appeared to him, at that distance, as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from them, with a wind at south-east,... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 pàgines
...to advance with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged alongside of us, about the distance of three...us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in it was fear, and a considerable... | |
 | 1867 - 214 pàgines
...to advance with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged alongside of us about the distance of three...measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at SE, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in... | |
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They retired from us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in it was fear, with a considerable deal of wonder and astonishment. 
