| Theodor Spira - 1928 - 280 pages
...ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began...visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was feit on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the re to fling Excalibur, I will arise and slay thee with in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder. Appalled... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1998 - 516 pages
...ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began...on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt at land. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink... | |
| 152 pages
...ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began...sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder. Sir WALTER... | |
| William Murison - English language - 1926 - 452 pages
...ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began...sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder. 4. Sketch... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 618 pages
...serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began next to arise, but it« wild and moaning sound sound was heard for some time, and its effects became...on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt at land. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink... | |
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