 Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference, prodigious in depth, and whose perfectly...  The Anglo-American Magazine - Page 2081853Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 408 pages
...admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference,...perfectly smooth sides might have been mistaken for ebony, ' 7 but for the bewildering rapidity with which they spun around, and for the gleaming and ghastly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Juvenile Fiction - 2003 - 448 pages
...admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference,...full moon, from that circular rift amid the clouds which I have already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and far... | |
 | Roger A. Salerno - Social Science - 2003 - 284 pages
...Norwegian seaman whose fishing boat becomes trapped in a hurricane finds himself in a "funnel of vast circumference, prodigious in depth and whose perfectly...ghastly radiance they shot forth, as the rays of the moon. . . ." The small craft was trapped in a maelstrom "a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference,...full moon, from that circular rift amid the clouds which I have already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and far... | |
 | Tom Koppel - Nature - 2007 - 294 pages
...I gazed about me," the old man said. "The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference,...smooth sides might have been mistaken for ebony." The tongue-biting agony continues. "Our first slide into the abyss itself, from the belt of foam above,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Cliffs Notes - 1927 - 508 pages
...admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference,...full moon, from that circular rift amid the clouds which I have already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and far... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1903 - 852 pages
...with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magie, midway down, upon thé interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference,...prodigious in depth, and whose perfectly smooth sides might hâve been mistaken for ebony but for thé bewildering rapidity with which they spun around, and for... | |
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