In the Polar Regions: Or, Nature and Natural History in the Frozen ZoneT. Nelson and Sons, 1882 - 238 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 107 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 107 - Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean : there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Pagina 69 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Pagina 219 - It presented an extraordinary appearance, gradually increasing in height, as we got nearer to it, and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between...
Pagina 186 - Fish-Hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all...
Pagina 247 - On Both Sides of the Sea : A Story of the Commonwealth and the Restoration.
Pagina 246 - Rambles in Rome. An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. By S. RUSSELL FORBES, Archaeological and Historical Lecturer on Roman Antiquities. With Maps, Plans, and Illustrations.
Pagina 87 - ... propensity to commit mischief. An instance occurred within my own knowledge, in which a hunter and his family having left their lodge unguarded during their absence, on their return found it completely gutted — the walls were there, but nothing else. Blankets, guns, kettles, axes, cans, knives, and all the other paraphernalia of a trapper's tent had vanished, and the tracks 'left by the beast showed who had been the thief. The family set to work, and by carefully following up all his paths...
Pagina 246 - Engravings and a Plan of Pompeii. Post 8vo, cloth extra. Price 3s. 6d. The Land Of the Nile; or, Egypt, Past and Present. By the Author of " The Mediterranean Illustrated.
Pagina 159 - Myouk is running at desperate speed from the scene of his victory, paying off his coil freely, but clutching the end by its loop. He seizes as he runs a small stick of bone, rudely pointed with iron, and by a sudden movement drives it into the ice: to this he secures his line, pressing it down close to the ice-surface with his feet. Now comes the struggle. The hole is dashed in mad commotion with the struggles of the wounded beast; the line is drawn tight at one moment, the next relaxed : the hunter...