| 1872 - 556 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-ofwar, against the dark brow of the precipice. VI. — Translate into English Prosa.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 544 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from •which...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 682 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror ord suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...visible: the signal of safety was lost among a thousand while breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy... | |
| Walter Scott - 1878 - 376 ページ
...relied, thev now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1878 - 492 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...in prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the masts of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old... | |
| Albert Stratford George Canning - 1879 - 390 ページ
...threw itself higher on the beach than those which had preceded it. They struggled forward, however ; but when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice.' — Ch. ix. * In describing poor Mr.... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 ページ
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
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