Peeps at foreign countries, by the ed. [N. Macleod] and contributions to Good words etc1871 |
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... rising out of the waters , the latter a great opening , like the door of a cathedral , through which one may pass at low tide ; and behind them , in- land , stretch the great white cliffs and precipices , fringed with grass and moss of ...
... rising out of the waters , the latter a great opening , like the door of a cathedral , through which one may pass at low tide ; and behind them , in- land , stretch the great white cliffs and precipices , fringed with grass and moss of ...
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... rising quickly , and if I do not round the promontory with speed , it may go ill with me . As I pass the Needle again , the waves have risen round it , and are beating against it in white foam , trying with all the might of waves to ...
... rising quickly , and if I do not round the promontory with speed , it may go ill with me . As I pass the Needle again , the waves have risen round it , and are beating against it in white foam , trying with all the might of waves to ...
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Peeps. structed with incredible labour , have the appearance of an enormous fortification , rising wall above wall for miles together . The road , in ascending the Col di Tenda , which is beyond St Dalmas , makes no fewer than eighty ...
Peeps. structed with incredible labour , have the appearance of an enormous fortification , rising wall above wall for miles together . The road , in ascending the Col di Tenda , which is beyond St Dalmas , makes no fewer than eighty ...
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... rising over the other , scattering forward out of the infinite like the ranks of an ill - disciplined army of giants . But you see no cones or peaks , and no white - crowned elect , and you are disappointed . The fact is , you do not ...
... rising over the other , scattering forward out of the infinite like the ranks of an ill - disciplined army of giants . But you see no cones or peaks , and no white - crowned elect , and you are disappointed . The fact is , you do not ...
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... rising above them in turn . But the fields grew more rugged and bare upon the ascending terrraces , and great lumps of stone came sticking through them , until at last rose the naked mountain , ' horrid all with ' rock , over which wan ...
... rising above them in turn . But the fields grew more rugged and bare upon the ascending terrraces , and great lumps of stone came sticking through them , until at last rose the naked mountain , ' horrid all with ' rock , over which wan ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alexander Column Alps appeared Arsta beautiful Blackfeet blue Canada church cliffs clouds coast colour Courmayeur Dalarö dance dark deep desert distance door England English Eskimo Étretat eyes feel feet fire fjord flowers French gaze Gibraltar give glacier green Greenland hands head hills islands Italy journey Kremlin ladies land light look miles Mont Blanc Montenegrin Moorish morning Moscow mountain never night noble Norway once palace passed peep Pignerol Protestantism railway reached Rephidim river road rock round Russia sail Saxenberg scene scenery seemed seen Serbal ship shore side smoke snow soon Spain St Dalmas St Petersburgh steamer streets summit Sweden things tion told town traveller trees valley village Waldensian walk walls whole wild wind winter women wood wooden young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 310 - And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Seite 403 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Seite 315 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Seite 353 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Seite 406 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Seite 405 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh ; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you : then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer ; they shall seek me eai'ly, but they shall not find me...
Seite 136 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
Seite 353 - Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Seite 404 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Seite 406 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.