 | 1828 - 722 Seiten
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 Seiten
...ascended the round-house, the light Chap. IV.] DISCOVERY OK LAND. 233 had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams;...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
 | 1828 - 448 Seiten
...inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ;...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 Seiten
...had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were-a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them; Columbus, however, considered... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 Seiten
...inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ;...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the baad of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | 1828 - 438 Seiten
...inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ;...the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house.... | |
 | 1829 - 762 Seiten
...round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising...shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 Seiten
...round house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and pass• ing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | 1830 - 428 Seiten
...inquiry. By the time,the latter bad ascended As round-bouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams,...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams,...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however, considered... | |
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Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising... 
