 ... nor tell where the substance ended and shadow began, until the casual dashing of a bucket overboard for a few moments broke up the phantom ship; but the wavering fragments soon re-united, and she again floated double, like the swan of the poet.  Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register - Seite 7781830Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Michael Scott - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...The anchorage was one unbroken mirror, except where its glasslike surface was shivered into sparkling ripples by the gambols of a skipjack, or the flashing...and steady, that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water-line, nor tell where the substance ended and shadow began, until... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1834 - 702 Seiten
...steady, that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water-line, nor telJ where the substance ended and shadow began, until the casual dashing of a bucket overboard for a few moments broke up the phantom ship ; but the wavering fragments soon reunited, and she again... | |
 | 1841 - 986 Seiten
...anchorage was one unbroken mirror, except where its glass-like surface was shivered into sparkling ripples by the gambols of a skipjack, or the flashing...and steady, that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water line, nor tell where the substance ended aud the shadow began,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 Seiten
...The anchorage was one unbroken mirror, except where its glasslike surface was shivered into sparkling ripples by the gambols of a skipjack, or the flashing...the water-line, nor tell where the substance ended r,nd shadow began, until the casual dashing of a bucket overboard for a few moments broke np the phantom... | |
 | George Douglas - 1897 - 168 Seiten
...The anchorage was one unbroken mirror, except where its glasslike surface was shivered into sparkling ripples by the gambols of a skipjack, or the flashing...and steady, that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water-line, nor tell where the substance ended and shadow began, until... | |
 | Frederick Treves - 1908 - 498 Seiten
...such a brilliant calm as Michael Scott has described, when " the anchorage was one unbroken mirror, and the reflection of the vessel was so clear and steady that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water-line, nor tell where the substance ended and the shadow began,... | |
 | Frederick Treves - 1920 - 490 Seiten
...such a brilliant calm as Michael Scott has described, when " the anchorage was one unbroken mirror, and the reflection of the vessel was so clear and steady that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water-line, nor tell where the substance ended and the shadow began,... | |
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