 ... was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon...  The Anglo-American Magazine - Page 2051853Full view - About this book
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1893 - 326 pages
...inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty - five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round, witn a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice half shriek, hall roar, such as not even the mighty cataract ot Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven. •... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. " This," said I at length, to the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. " This," said I, at length, to the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice—half shriek, half roar—such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. " This," said I at length, to the... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclincd to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such äs not cven the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven. The mountain trembled... | |
 | 1857 - 662 pages
...jet-black »-all of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such аи not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lift» up in its agony to Heaven. The mountain trembled... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. " This," said I at length, to the... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1867 - 400 pages
...and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering...and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. ' This,' said I, at length, to the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with n swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to...the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its ngony to Heaven. The mountain trembled to its very base, and the rock rocked. 1 threw myself upon my... | |
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