 ... of which we speak. In winter, a dazzling surface of purest snow; in early summer, a vast expanse of grass and pale pink roses; in autumn too often a wild sea of raging fire. No ocean of water in the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude...  The modern geographical readers - Page 153by Modern geographical readers - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 438 pages
...gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie : one feels tha stillness, and hears the silence, the wail of the...infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense. This ocean has no past — time has been nought to it ; and men have come and gone, leaving no track,... | |
 | sir William Francis Butler - 1873 - 476 pages
...the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie: one feels the stillness, and hears the silence,...infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense. This ocean has no past — time has been nought to it ; and men have come and gone, leaving behind... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 pages
...the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie. One feels the stillness, and hears the silence;...infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense. . . . Some French writer, speaking of these prairies, has said that the sense of this utter negative... | |
 | 1880 - 612 pages
...world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets ; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie; one feels the stillness and hears the silence ; the wail of the prowling wolf makes makes the voice of solitude audible ; the stars look down through infinite silence upon silence almost... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1885 - 274 pages
...yet here and there that a yellow patch shows some gigantic wheat field." Another writer says : — " The great ocean itself does not present more infinite...infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense." But Manitoba, " the keystone of that mighty arch of sister provinces which span the entire continent... | |
 | Dick Harrison - 1977 - 270 pages
...the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a nightshadowed prairie: one feels the stillness, and hears the silence,...through infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense.10 To give a form to the totally unfamiliar mixture of impressions, Butler has drawn from the... | |
 | George Melnyk - 1998 - 270 pages
...vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie; no one feels the stillness, and hears the silence, the...through infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense....3 As Butler approached Fort Edmonton he commented on how the country maintained its rich... | |
 | Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - 788 pages
...the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a nightshadowed prairie: one feels the stillness and hears the silence,...infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense . . . men have come and gone, leaving behind them no track, no vestige of their presence.22 One settler... | |
 | Lorry W. Felske, Beverly Jean Rasporich - 2004 - 384 pages
...the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie: one feels the stillness, and hears the silence,...infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense. . . . [T]he prairies had nothing terrible in their aspect, nothing oppressive in their loneliness.... | |
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