| Early English newspapers - 1837 - 722 pages
...description. The immense machine which suspended us between ' heaven and earth,' whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...about as though revelling in a freedom for which it bad long struggled, but of which, until that moment, it had been kept in absolute ignorance. It at... | |
| Industrial arts - 1837 - 494 pages
...immense machine which suspended us between " heaven and earth," whilst it appeared to be n. COOKING'* forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling ta a freedom for which it had long struggled, but of whieh until that moment it had been kept in absolute... | |
| Meteorology - 1837 - 970 pages
...description. The immense machine which suspended us between ''heaven and earth,?> whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlings of a fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a freedom for which it had long... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1843 - 538 pages
...description. The immense machine which suspended us between ' heaven and earth,' whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the liowU ings of a fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a freedom for which it had long... | |
| 1843 - 536 pages
...upwards with tcrrilic violence and rapidity through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlIngs of a fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a freedom for which it had long strugg ed, but of which until that moment it had been kept in utter Ignorance. It at length, aa if... | |
| Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 488 pages
...description. The immense machine which suspended us between ' heaven and earth,' whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlings of a fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a freedom for which it had long... | |
| William Stephens Hayward - 1865 - 402 pages
...description. The immense machine which suspended us between " heaven and earth," whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlings of a fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a freedom it had long struggled... | |
| Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1870 - 288 pages
...description. The immense machine which suspended us between ' heaven and earth,' whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlings of a fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a freedom for which it had long... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 pages
...description ; the immense machine which suspended us between ' heaven and earth/ whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...through unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlings of a fearful hurricane, rolled about, as though revelling in a freedom for which it had long... | |
| Norman Macleod - 1883 - 946 pages
...immense machine," says Green, "which suspended us between 'heaven and earth,' whilst it appeared to be forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity...but of which, until that moment, it had been kept in utter ignorance. It at length, as if somewhat fatigued by its exertions, gradually assumed the motions... | |
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