 | California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 pagina’s
...presented a high, impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad, deep basin, black from the...tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 pagina’s
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again ait called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 pagina’s
...presented a high, impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding: forest. fcjKJ i\y> then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog ; he was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pagina’s
...presented a high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...that overhung a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What *ras to be done... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pagina’s
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...that overhung a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Edward Napoleon Kirby - 1895 - 216 pagina’s
...twisted their coils and tendrils from tree to tree, and spread a kind of network in his path. 8. Here poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog ; he was answered only by the cawing of a flock of idle crows, which were sporting high in air about a withered... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pagina’s
...presented a high, impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad, deep basin, black from the...tree that overhung a sunny precipice, and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 416 pagina’s
...a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a tlock of idle crows, sporting high in air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pagina’s
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...that overhung a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 50 pagina’s
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
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At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheatre; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell... 
