 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
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 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...to billow ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggering vessel.... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 370 pagina’s
...the ship leaps, as it were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening,...against the staggered vessel. I see them, escaped from th^se perils, pursuing their all but desperate undertaking, and landed at last, after a five months'... | |
 | 1851 - 312 pagina’s
...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 ingulphing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 324 pagina’s
...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, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel.'1 The design of the writer in this passage, is to excite emotion in the minds of his readers.... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pagina’s
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base, — the dismal sound of the pumps...to billow, — the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulphing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | William Russell - 1853 - 432 pagina’s
...Expression." " The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem strained from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...to billow : — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pagina’s
...awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their hase ; the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ; the ship...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening weight against the staggering vessel.... | |
 | Salem Town - 1854 - 412 pagina’s
...waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. 5. The laboring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pumps is...were madly, from billow to billow; the ocean breaks, ami settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight,... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1855 - 544 pagina’s
...for shore. 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...beats with deadening, shivering weight against the staggering vessel." l Escaped from these perils, after a passage of sixty-six days, and subsequent... | |
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