 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...sun appear red, and the stars of more than an ordinary magnitude. But a dreadful reverse succeeding, the sky is suddenly overcast and wild ; the sea rises...roars like the noise of cannon ; the rain descends in a deluge ; a dismal obscurity envelopes the earth with darkness ; and the superior regions appear rent... | |
 | William Brown - Jews - 1826 - 718 pages
...atmosphere, which makes the sun appear red, and the stars larger. But a dreadful reverse succeeding; the sky is suddenly overcast and wild ; the sea rises at once from a profound calm • Travels, p. 333. b Franklin's Phys. and Meteorol. Observ. •' London Philosoph. Transact. vol.... | |
 | Reginald Orton - Cholera - 1831 - 558 pages
...atmosphere, which makes the sun appear red, and the stars larger. But, a dreadful reverse succeeding, the sky is suddenly overcast and wild. The sea rises...cannon. The rain descends in deluges. A dismal obscurity envelops the earth with darkness. The superior regions appear rent with lightning and thunder. The... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...sun appear red, and the stars of more than an ordinary magnitude. But a dreadful reverse succeeding, the sky is suddenly overcast and wild ; the sea rises...roars like the noise of cannon; the rain descends jn a deluge ; a dismal obscurity envelops the earth with darkness; and the superior regions appear... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...the wind's resistless force consumes every thing in its track, in the most terrible and rapid manner. The sky is suddenly overcast and wild ; the sea rises...roars like the noise of cannon ; the rain descends in a deluge ; the roofs of houses are carried to vast distances from their walls, and large trees are... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...makes the sun appear red and the stars larger. But a dreadful reverse succeeding, the sky is snddenly overcast and wild — the sea rises at once from a...like the noise of cannon — the rain descends in a deluge — a dismal obscurity envelopes the earth with darkness, and the superior regions appear... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...in the most terrible and rapid manner. The sky is suddenly overcast and wild, the sea rises at oiice from a profound calm into mountains ; the wind rages...roars like the noise of cannon ; the rain descends in a deluge ; the roofs of houses arc carried to vast distances from their walls ; large trees are torn... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...atmosphere, which makes the sun look red, and the stars larger. But a dreadful reverse succeeding — the sky is suddenly overcast and wild— the sea rises at once from a profound calm into mountains—the wind rages and roars like the noise of cannou — the rain descends in deluges —... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...atmosphere, which makes the sun look red, and the stars larger, But a dreadful reverse succeeding— the sky is suddenly overcast and wild — the sea...noise of cannon — the rain descends in deluges — a dixmal obscurity envelopes tli earth with darkness— the superior regions appear rent with lightning... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...atmosphere, which makes the BUU look red, and the stars larger. But a dreadful reverse succeeding — the sky is suddenly overcast and wild— the sea rises...like the noise of cannon — the rain descends in de> luges — a dismal obicurity envelopes the earth with darkness— the superior regions appear rent... | |
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But a dreadful reverse succeeds: the sky is suddenly overcast and wild ; the sea rises at once from a profound calm into mountains; the wind rages and roars like the noise of cannon; the rain descends in... 