| Wilhelm Wittich - Earthquakes - 1845 - 432 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." What a degree of heat travellers experience... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." Bruce has sketched with spirit several of these... | |
| Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - Natural history - 1848 - 426 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." There are but few wild beasts in the desert:... | |
| 1852 - 702 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." Bruce has sketched with spirit several of these... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." Bruce has sketched with spirit several of these... | |
| John Knox Laughton - Meteorology - 1873 - 416 pages
...Great Desert to Morocco, vol. i., pp. 337, 345. thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the...cloud of sand, appeared dim and shorn of its beams." * The sand which easterly winds thus raise in the Desert is carried by them far out to sea. During... | |
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