 The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined...  Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges - Page 186by Norman Collie - 1902 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1893 - 326 pages
...particle by particle, viscid goat by gout, into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, ss far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet - black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty - five degrees, speeding... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray ; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye...was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray ; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye...was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...belt of gleaming spray ; but no particle of this slipped into tho mouth of the terrific funnel, whoso interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 698 pages
...represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray : but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye...was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, spreading dizzily round and round with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and...and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, äs far äs the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining. and jet-black wall of water, inclincd to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 692 pages
...no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eve could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, spreading dizzily round and round with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray ; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye...was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with... | |
 | 1857 - 662 pages
...represented by a broad l>elt of gleaming spray ; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye...could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black »-all of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round... | |
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