 | 1829 - 632 pages
...some to be Mount Horeb, which is the highest mountain in all the region around ; but from its summit, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen on every side but ranges of naked mountains succeeding each other like waves of the sea. Between these... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - Church and state - 1822 - 502 pages
...rushing down the street and gathering in front of the inn drew us, nearly undressed, to the window. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but a compact crowd of peasants, most of them with clasp knives in their hands. At the sight of us, such... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - Canada - 1824 - 530 pages
...numerous and troublesome. I was always forcibly struck by the melancholy appearance of a burnt Prairie. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but one uniform black surface, looking like a vast plain of charcoal. Here and there, by the road side,... | |
 | John Carne - Arabian Peninsula - 1826 - 634 pages
...by some to be Mount Horeb, is the highest mountain in all the region around ; but from its summit, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen on every side but ranges of naked mountains succeeding each other like waves of the sea. Between these... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...plain of Africa, far <lisrom any stream of water, where no cool shade refreshed the "weaveller, and as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen raps of sand, extending like the undulations of the sea, he re'i several creeping plants of luxuriant... | |
 | African Americans - 1830 - 412 pages
...of which, glittering in the light, repeatedly gave a pearly lustre to the twig which supported them: as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but forest, which, at a distance, between the trees, looked like a subterraneous cavern supported by columns... | |
 | African Americans - 1830 - 398 pages
...of which, glittering in the light, repeatedly gave a pearly lustre to the twig which supported them: as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but forest, which, at a distance, between the trees, looked like a subterraneous cavern supported by columns... | |
 | Gaius Sallustius Crispus - 1830 - 216 pages
...wounds and striving to escape, yet falling to the ground in the fruitless endeavor. Along the plain, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but swords, and javelins, and bucklers, amidst the carcases of the slain ; and the earth dyed with human... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1834 - 632 pages
...across me, when — on the horses stopping to breathe on the summit of a lofty ridge, where all around, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but the same unvarying, miserable, heart-sinking barrenness, without a trace of human habitation, except... | |
| |
As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots. 
