 Sanchez of Segovia and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the roundhouse 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 and...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 3841867Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...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 and sinking with the...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and moreover, that the land was inhabited. ' They continued their course until two in... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1828 - 574 pages
...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 with the...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | 1828 - 448 pages
...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 with the...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...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 and sinking with the...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...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 with the...them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 600 pages
...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 with the...them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and moreover, that the land was inhabited. " They continued their course, until two... | |
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