They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient... The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Pagina 63door Washington Irving - 1829 - 311 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1828 - 722 pagina’s
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| 1828 - 448 pagina’s
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 pagina’s
...DISCOVERY OK LAND. 233 had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| 1828 - 438 pagina’s
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pagina’s
...had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were-a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| 1829 - 762 pagina’s
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pagina’s
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 600 pagina’s
...round house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 290 pagina’s
...same direction, and they also perceived the light — again and again it appeared and disappeared, " as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or, in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house." At two in the morning,... | |
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