 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 728 pages
...different diftances, at times moving with great celerity, at othcis (talking on with a majeftic flowiiefs : at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us; and fmall quantities of fand did adhially more than once reai. h us. Again they would retreat foas ID be... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 734 pages
...different liiftances, at times moving with great celerity, at others fbrlking on with a majeftic flownefs : at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us ; and fmall quantities of land did aehially more than once rcaih us. Again they would retreat fo as to be... | |
 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...In that vast expanse of Desert from west to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances ; at times, moving...majestic slowness ; at intervals, we thought they were corning in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually, more than... | |
 | 1802 - 572 pages
...that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, •we saw a number of prodigious fillars pf sand at different distances, at times moving with...slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 346 pages
...vast expanse of (lesart, from west to the north-west of them, they saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with...stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals they thought they were ioming in a very few minutes to overwhelm them ; and small quantities of sand... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pages
...world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and- to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on wjth a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pages
...number of prodigious pillars ofsandiit different distances, at times moving with great celerity, as others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming; in a very fewminutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us.... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with...slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand, did actually more than once reach us.... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pages
...In that vast expanse of desert from west to nor th-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us;... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pages
...world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in a very few moments to overwhelm... | |
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... few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. 
