 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pages
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 pages
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetratis... | |
 | Job (the patriarch), John Fry - Bible - 1827 - 630 pages
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect; the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour, the streets are deserted, and the dead silence of the night reigns everywhere:" vol. i. 50. See further... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1831 - 362 pages
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but gray and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...experienced it. When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour ; the air is not cloudy, but gmy and thick, and is filled with a subtile dust, which penetrates every where:... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
...experienced it. When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times eo clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour; the air is not cloudy, but gray and thick, and is filled with a subtile dust, which penetrates every where... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1836 - 472 pages
...experienced it. When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour ; the air is not cloudy, but gray and thick, and is filled with a subtile dust, which penetrates every where... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1838 - 476 pages
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 696 pages
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1840 - 398 pages
...appearance and effects of this " wind of the desert" are more fully described in the following account. " The sky, at, other times serene and cloudless, appears...natural qualities ; marble, iron, and water are hot, ami deceive the hand which touches them. Every kind of moisture is absorbed ; the •kin is parched-... | |
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When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour... 
