 ... glide over from peak to peak of these rocky passes, are imaged on the waters so clearly that the fisherman, as he unmoors his boat for his evening task, feels as if he were about to shoot forth his vessel into another heaven, and to cleave his way...  Feats on the Fiord: A Tale - Page 3by Harriet Martineau - 1841 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marshman William Hazen - Elocution - 1895 - 452 pages
...Still as everything is to the eye, sometimes for a hundred miles together along these deep sea valleys, there is rarely silence. The ear is kept awake by...summer there are cataracts leaping from ledge to ledge, the bleating of the kids that browse there, the flap of the great eagle's wing as it dashes abroad... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1895 - 450 pages
...Still as everything is to the eye, sometimes for a hundred miles together along these deep sea valleys, there is rarely silence. The ear is kept awake by...summer there are cataracts leaping from ledge to ledge, the bleating of the kids that browse there, the flap of the great eagle's wing as it dashes abroad... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Fjords - 1899 - 294 pages
...those of a lake. For days and weeks together, they reflect each separate tree-top of the pine-forests which clothe the mountain sides, the mirror being...the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings, as it dashes abroad from its eyrie, and the cries of whole clouds... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1905 - 700 pages
...from the mountain and forest lie on them ; and these may be more lovely than the faint light of I76 the winter noons of those latitudes, and the snowy...the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings, as it dashes abroad from its eyrie, and the cries of whole clouds... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1915 - 1052 pages
...1. Trm si ate into French : — (a) NORWEGIAN FIOBDS. Still as everything is to the eye, sometime* for a hundred miles together along these deep sea-valleys...the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings, as it dashes abroad from its eyrie, and the cries of clouds of sea... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...Still as everything is to ihecyo, sometimes for a hundred miles together along these deep stavalleys, there is rarely silence. The ear is kept awake by...cataracts leaping from ledge to ledge of the rocks, ami there is the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings as... | |
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