| English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...here then they experienced the double agony of terror and suspence. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first rate man, of war, against the dark brow of the precipice. ' " The countenance of the old man fjil. Isabella... | |
| Walter Scott - Scotland - 1816 - 328 pages
...here then they experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a firsf-rate man of-war, against the dark brow of the precijuce. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| 1816 - 676 pages
...double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward however; but, when they arrived at i In- point from which they ought to have seen the crag,...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-ofwar, against the dark brow of the precipice. " The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...experienced the double agony of terror and suspence. They struggled forward, however; but, when the}' arrived at the point from which they ought to have...rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as ths must of a first rate man of war, against the dark bro'.v of the precipice. " 'My father! my dear... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...here then they experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...it was no longer visible. The signal of safety was last amidst a thousand while breakers, which, dashing upon ihe point of the promontory, rose in prodigious... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 248 pages
...here then they experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| George Newenham Wright - Electronic books - 1836 - 250 pages
...bent their eyes towards the black rock pointed out by Ochiltree. The signal of safety was lost amongst a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon the...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. . . . The countenance of the old man... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a firstrate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance t>f the old man fell.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 368 pages
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pages
...longer visible. The signal of safety was lost among a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon iht point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets...precipice. The countenance of the old man fell. Isabella gm _ faint shriek, and, "God have mercy upon us!" which her guide solemnly uttered, was pitaoojf echoed... | |
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