 | 1836 - 932 pages
...underneath it; and upon iarther examination, perceived there were nnumerable trap-doors that lay concealed n the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and i disapJeared. These hidden pit-falls were set rery thick at the entrance of the bridge, so .hat throngs... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...it; and upon Farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon,...sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell nto them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer .ogether towards the... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...and upon further examination, perceived that there were innumerable trap doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon,...through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. 17. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but Ihey fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared....very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that the throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, than many of them fell into them. They grew... | |
 | Franz C F. Demmler - 1842 - 92 pages
...examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which 9 the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell...bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke 10 through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...underneath it; and upon arther examination, perceived there were nnumerable trap-doors that lay concealed n als; nor if it had, would it, in that state and incapacity of transferring itself disap>eared. These hidden pit-falls were set rery thick at the entrance of the bridge, so hat throngs... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon...throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud hut many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but that they fell through them into the tide, and immediately...very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that the throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. 17. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the...entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no soonerbroke through the cloud, .but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle,... | |
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As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which... 
