American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1836 |
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... winds . Imagine the swingle - tow of the farmer to have been profusely lodged on a tree , in a stiff breeze , and you will have a correct idea of the ap- pearance of this moss . It is supposed to be produced by the miasma arising from ...
... winds . Imagine the swingle - tow of the farmer to have been profusely lodged on a tree , in a stiff breeze , and you will have a correct idea of the ap- pearance of this moss . It is supposed to be produced by the miasma arising from ...
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... winds , others for wind or steam up the river , and others again aground , tarrying for high water , before they could move in any direction - and withal revenue cutters , news and pilot - boats skipping to and fro among them . It was a ...
... winds , others for wind or steam up the river , and others again aground , tarrying for high water , before they could move in any direction - and withal revenue cutters , news and pilot - boats skipping to and fro among them . It was a ...
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... wind from the North , and the captain , unwilling to lose so good a chance to gain time , when he knew he could not make an inch against the wind with his bagging old sails , crowded on all the canvass his truly frail bark could stagger ...
... wind from the North , and the captain , unwilling to lose so good a chance to gain time , when he knew he could not make an inch against the wind with his bagging old sails , crowded on all the canvass his truly frail bark could stagger ...
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... perhaps it was not . - But such fortune did not continue long . We were rapidly nearing the breakers , when suddenly there was a calm ; anon , and in the course of five minutes , the wind blew a hurricane from 1836. ] 67 Life at Sea .
... perhaps it was not . - But such fortune did not continue long . We were rapidly nearing the breakers , when suddenly there was a calm ; anon , and in the course of five minutes , the wind blew a hurricane from 1836. ] 67 Life at Sea .
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... wind blew a hurricane from every point of the com- pass ; and , as if it had tried which was the hardest way it could blow , it commenced with the North - west , as surpassing all others in might , and threw up the very dregs of the ...
... wind blew a hurricane from every point of the com- pass ; and , as if it had tried which was the hardest way it could blow , it commenced with the North - west , as surpassing all others in might , and threw up the very dregs of the ...
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Page 436 - The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
Page 450 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
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