 | John Croumbie Brown - Floods - 1878 - 194 pages
..." Prior to 1789 this vast forest area was — ' A bare strand Of hillocks heaped from ever-shifting sand, . Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds,...Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds.' The sand was so fine as to be wafted by the faintest breeze ; while the great sea storms raised huge... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1879 - 660 pages
...towards Venice. A bare strand. Of hillock ; heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles nnd amphibious weeds Such as from earth's embrace the...Abandons. And no other object breaks . The waste, but one dwarf tree, and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired ; and the tide makes A narrow space of level... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 660 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand. Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 460 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 452 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 516 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, s Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes 10 Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 478 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice. A bare strand Of hillocks heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds Such...Abandons. And no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree, and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired ; and the tide makes A narrow space of level... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 770 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 474 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice. A bare strand Of hillocks heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds Such...Abandons. And no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree, and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired ; and the tide makes A narrow space of level... | |
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I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze... 
