 Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat was not the only object in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber...  The Critical Essays of a Country Parson - Page 241by 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
...apparently doomed figure was borne, I perceived that she, in the midst of the mighty, all-mastering misery, was not the only object in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below were visible fragments of wreckage — significant wreckage — plumed hats, swordsheaths, portfolios,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...revolution, was slow, but very perceptible. " Jx>oking about mo upon tho wido waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat...were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building-timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of housefurniture,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...revolution, was slow, but very perceptible. „Looking about me upon the wide was« of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat...of building timber and trunks of trees, with many ginaller articles, such äs pieces of house furnimre, broken boxes, barreis and staves. I have already... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 692 pages
...Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony ou which we were thus borne, I perceived tliat our boat was not the only object in the embrace of...fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber and tmnks'of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, 1 perceived that our boat wns not. the only object in the embrace of the whirl, both above ana below us writ» visible ; fragment« of veiw*lit, Iñigo rnníífs of building timber i and trunks... | |
 | 1857 - 662 pages
...waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, 1 perceived that our boat was not the only objecl in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below...articles, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxe», barrels ant staves. I have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 280 pages
...revolution, was skrtf, but very perceptible. " Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat was not the only object in the embrace of the s, " 15 whirl. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building-timber... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1884 - 600 pages
...revolution, was slow, but very per. ceptible. " Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat...were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building-timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of house furniture,... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 998 pages
...«11 met together at the bottom ; but the yell that went up to the heavens out of that abyss», I dure not venture to describe. " Looking about me upon the...building timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller arricies, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels and staves. I have already described... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 658 pages
...revolution, was slow but very perceptible. " Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat...house furniture, broken boxes, barrels, and staves. l have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place of my original terrors.... | |
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