 I perceived that what seamen term the chopping character of the ocean beneath us, was rapidly changing into a current which set to the eastward. Even while I gazed, this current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed - to its headlong...  The Critical Essays of a Country Parson - Page 239by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1867 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1893 - 326 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed— to its headlong impetuosity. The vast bed of the waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand heaving, boiling, hissing,— gryrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling ana... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed — to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting charmels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion — heaving, boiling, hissing — gyrating in gigantic... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed — to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion — heaving, boiling, hissing — gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed—to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...its sway. Here the vast bed of the waters seamed and scan ed into a thousand conflicting channels burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion—heaving,' boiling,... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 698 pages
...current acquired a monilrou3 Telocity. £ach moment added to its speed— to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion — heaving, boiling, hissing — gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed — • to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion — heaving, boiling, hissing — gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, äs far äs Vurrgh, was lashed into ungovernablc fury; but it was between Moskoe and the coast that the main uproar held its sway. Here the vastbed of the waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand confh'cting channels, burst suddenly into... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 692 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed — to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...lashed into ungovernable fury ; but it was between Sloskoe and the coast that the main uproar held its sway. Here the vast bed of the waters seamed and... | |
 | 1857 - 662 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity Each moment added to its speed — to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was lashed into ungoverable fury ; but it was between Moskoe and the coast that the main uproar held its sway. Here... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed — to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was...thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion — heaving, boiling, hissing — gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices,... | |
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