| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Nature - 1846 - 596 pages
...then retiring backwards discovered a great part of its bed, the stones of which were dashed backwards and forward with a rough and horrible noise. The sea,...than six feet, and the winds, which brushed along its surface, carried it beyond the steep clifls of the shore more than half a league into the island.... | |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Natural history - 1846 - 630 pages
...then retiring backwards discovered a great part of its bed, the stones of which were dashed backwards and forward with a rough and horrible noise. The sea,...moment, and the whole channel between this island aod the Isle of Amber, appeared to be an immense sheet of white foam, hollowed into deep and dusky... | |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Conduct of life - 1879 - 410 pages
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1881 - 298 pages
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 454 pages
...stones with a harsh and frightful sound. The sea, swollen by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was one vast sheet of white foam full of yawning black depths. Heaps of this foam more than six feet... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
| Jules Verne - Adventure stories, French - 1899 - 320 pages
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the whole channel between this island and the isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
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