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" I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum. "
United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture, Commerce ... - Page 269
1857
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The Western World; Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47 ..., Volume 3

Alexander Mackay - United States - 1850 - 394 pages
...last two miles the descent was rapid. I was now fairly in the valley of the Genesee, which extended to the right and left as far as the eye could reach. The Genesee enters the valley at right angles, a little . below Mount Morris, emerging from between...
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The Pathways & Abiding Places of Our Lord

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - Eretz Israel - 1851 - 308 pages
...your mind. We descended the hills with the long line of snow-crowned Libanus stretching before us, to the right and left, as far as the eye could reach. Beneath was the extensive valley, but its southern portion only was revealed to sight. The object for...
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Tales of Mystery, Imagination and Humour ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum — a panorama more deplorably desolate, no human imagination...gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the serf which reared high up against it its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking for ever. Just...
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Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour: And Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebranim—a panorama more deplorably desolate, no human imagination...gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the serf which reared high up against it its white and ghostly crest, howling and shrieking for ever. Just...
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Clara Moreland: Or, Adventures in the Far South-west

Emerson Bennett - American literature - 1853 - 344 pages
...prairie lay before us ; but in the extreme distance we could see the line of a forest, extending away to the right and left as far as the eye could reach. Knowing that the bottom lands of the large water courses were in general heavily timbered, I now felt...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...a hue äs to bring at once to my mind the | Nubian geographer"s account of the Märe l Tenebrarum. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. | To the right and left, äs far äs the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly...
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The Narratives of an Old Traveller: Containing the Perils and Hair-breadth ...

Philip H. Knelb - Adventure stories - 1854 - 416 pages
...profound abyss, about thirty feet wide, which opened just across our path, and which stretched unbroken to the right and left as far as the eye could reach. It had apparently been formerly the bed of a river, which had either run dry or chosen another channel....
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The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 2

Canada - 1853 - 692 pages
...so inky a hue as to wing at once to my mind the Nubian geographers account of the Mare Tenebrarum. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination...the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like rara>arts of the world, lines of horridly black and icetliug cliff, whose character of gloom wag but...
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The North Lincoln sphinx

Royal Lincolnshire regiment - 1862 - 318 pages
...the whole ing to a considerable height,* close behind the cottages, while ; country looked charming, to the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, an infi- j (To be continued in > ««™«y_ nity of mountains showed their heather-covered tops to...
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A woman against the world [by W.G. Starbuck].

William Gayer Starbuck - 1864 - 372 pages
...he has overcome a difficulty. Some twenty miles distant the sea bounded the horizon, and swept along to the right and left as far as the eye could reach. Several vessels were in sight, sleeping motionless on the still water, but too remote to excite the...
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