 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 904 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...among a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon tne point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 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 firstrate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 280 ページ
...here, then, they 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.... | |
 | Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1891 - 254 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...was no longer visible. The signal of safety was lost amid a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious... | |
 | 1893 - 762 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 - 1898 - 856 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...thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon the point of tke promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 460 ページ
...to a turn in their precarious path, where an intervening projection of rock hid it from their sight. white breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the...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 - 1893 - 696 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 firstrate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man felL Isabella... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1903 - 288 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...among a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon tae awesome : so awful. the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high... | |
 | Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - 1906 - 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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Deprived of the view of the beacon on which they had 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 ought to have seen the crag, it was no longer... 
