 The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging : the laboring masts seem straining from their base : the dismal sound of the pumps is heard : the ship leaps, as it •were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing...  Pamphlets. American History - Pagina 541825Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Nellie Elfa Turner - 1915 - 536 pagina’s
...vessel. 5 The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. 6 The laboring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggering vessel.... | |
 | 1916 - 326 pagina’s
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow; the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods over the floating vessel. I see them, escaped from these perils, pursuing their all... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1919 - 250 pagina’s
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow; the ocean breaks and settles with engulfing floods over the floating deck and beats with deadening weight against the staggering vessel.... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 440 pagina’s
...through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is is heard ; the ship leaps, as it were, madly from...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks and settles with engulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggering vessel.... | |
 | 1927 - 724 pagina’s
...storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of pumps is heard; the ship leaps, as it were, madly...billow to billow; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggering vessel.... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 pagina’s
...before the raging tempest, in their scarcely seaworthy vessel. . . . The laboring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggered vessel.... | |
 | 1901 - 1042 pagina’s
...seaworthy vessel. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggered vessel.... | |
 | 1898 - 252 pagina’s
...of animals, and to catch the sighing of winds through the trees. ' The laboring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggering... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pagina’s
...giddy wave. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging ; the laboring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 602 pagina’s
...instance, the following sentence contained in the above extract. " The laboring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps...heard ; — the ship leaps, as it were, madly, from hillow to hillow ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulphing floods over the floating deck,... | |
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