 | 1855 - 594 páginas
...twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea overleaping the base of the promontory. A glimmering idea of the real nature of our situation at length crossed my mind. It was not the imprisonment of a tide to which we Ind consigned ourselves ; it was imprisonment for a week ! There... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 558 páginas
...rested twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea enclasping the base of the promontory. A glimmering idea of the real nature of our situation at length...mind. It was not imprisonment for a tide to which WQ had consigned ourselves ; it was imprisonment for a week. There was little comfort in the thought,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 páginas
...A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring. — Pope. 2. It was not imprisonment for a tide, to which we had...consigned ourselves : it was imprisonment for a week. — Hugh Miller. 3. Men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 82 páginas
...1. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring.—Pope. 2. It was not imprisonment for a tide, to which we had consigned ourselves: it was imprisonment for a week.—Hugh Miller. 4. There were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 páginas
...rested twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea enclasping the base of the promontory. A glimmering ide'a of the real nature of our situation at length...consigned ourselves : it was imprisonment for a week. 8. There was little comfort in the thought, arising as it did . amid the chills and terrors of a dreary... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 páginas
...rested twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea enclasping the base of the promontory. A glimmering ide'a of the real nature of our situation at length...for a tide to which we had consigned ourselves: it wa.j imprisonment for a week. 8. There was little comfort in the thought, arising as it did amid the... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 páginas
...the base of the promontory. A glimmering ide'a of the real nature of our situation at length cr6ssed my mind. It was not imprisonment for a tide to which...consigned ourselves : it was imprisonment for a week. 8. There was little comfort in the thought, arising as it did amid the chills and terrors of a dreary... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 346 páginas
...rested twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea enclasping the base of the promontory. A glimmering ide'a of the real nature of our situation at length crossed my mind. It was not 1 Oor'ru gat ed, formed or shaped s Ban'dit, a lawless or desperate into folds ; wrinkled. fellow ;... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 350 páginas
...ill. imprisonment for a tide to which we had consigned ourselves: it wa;j, imprisonment for a week. 5. There was little comfort in the thought, arising as...sea as our only path of escape. There was a vessel crdssing the wake of the moon at the time, scarce half a mile from the shore ; and, assisted by my... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1879 - 588 páginas
...rested twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea enclasping the base of the promontory. A glimmering idea of the real nature of our situation at length...in the thought, arising, as it did, amid the chills ao4 terrors i,fa dreary midnight ; and I looked wistfully on the sea as our only path of escape. There... | |
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... over the rough slippery crags, to ascertain whether the tide had not fallen sufficiently far to yield us a passage, but we found the waves chafing among the rocks, just where the tideline had rested twelve hours before, and a full fathom of sea enclasping... 
