 ... 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 to the horizon...  The Anglo-American Magazine - Page 2051853Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 1975 - 1042 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding ver the threshold, the whole interior of the building m its agony to Heaven. The mountain trembled to its very hase, and the rock rocked. I threw myself... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2004 - 450 pages
...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 sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. "This," said I at length, to the... | |
 | Eric S. Rabkin - Fiction - 1983 - 548 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some fortyfive degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the wind an appalling voice, half-shriek, half-roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1984 - 1440 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. "This," said I at length, to the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1993 - 320 pages
...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 sweltering...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... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Literary Collections - 1993 - 308 pages
...the sudden outpouring of sound to "the moaning of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie," "an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mightly cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven" (II, 228-229). In Poe's sense of... | |
 | Thomas Adam Pepper - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 274 pages
...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 sweltering...cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven. (CTP, 129) 47 Is it possible that Immanuel Kant was thinking of this very passage in Jonas Ramus when... | |
 | Christophe Den Tandt - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water . . . speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven" (129). The awesome spectacle swallows two of the brothers, though the storyteller survives the descent... | |
 | Eric Martin - Fiction - 2000 - 264 pages
...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 sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. "This," said I at length, to the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 408 pages
...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 sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. "This," said I at length, to the... | |
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