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" Wyvis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, 'and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been chiselled in marble. A line of snow ran along the opposite hills : all above... "
The Old Red Sandstone - Page 39
by Hugh Miller - 1852
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1843 - 628 pages
...thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side like the foliage of a stately tree- Ben Wevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows...ran along the opposite hills ; all above was white, and all below was purple. I returned to the quarry convinced that a very exquisite pleasure may be...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 25

1850 - 638 pages
...stratum of air, spread out equally on every •ids like the foliage of a stately tree. Бen Wevis rate to the west white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, and as sharpiy defined in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 5-6

1848 - 916 pages
...side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben AVevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwashed snows of winter, and as sharply defined in the clear...ran along the opposite hills ; all above was white, and all below was purple. They reminded me of the story, in which an old artist is described as tasking...
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The North British review

1850 - 652 pages
...thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben Wevis rose to the west white with the yet unwasted snows...ran along the opposite hills ; all above was white and all below was purple." — Old Eed Sandstone, pp. 6, 7. giiissgglfS -««« ijK*»^- «=• * ....
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The Footprints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - 1899 - 372 pages
...tree. Ben Wevis roee to the west, white with the yet unwastcd snows of winter, and as sharply denned in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes...ran along the opposite hills ; all above was white, and all below was purple." — Old Bed Sandstone, pp. 6, 7. In raising from its bed the large mass...
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Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller - 1851 - 324 pages
...thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben-VVevis rose to the west white with the yet unwasted snows...the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes and the blue retiring-hollows had been chiseled in marble. A line of snow ran along the opposite hills;...
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The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field

Hugh Miller - 1854 - 324 pages
...thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben Wcvis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows...ran along the opposite hills; all above was white, and all below was purple. They reminded me of the pretty French story, in which an old artist is described...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...wide prospect of the bay and the opposite shore. There was not a wrinkle on the water, nor a cloud iu the sky, and the branches were as moveless in the...ran along the opposite hills ; all above was white, and all below was purple. They reminded me of the pretty French story, in which an old artist is described...
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The Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller - 1856 - 376 pages
...thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben Wevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, and as sharply denned in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been chiselled...
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The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field. To which is Appended a ...

Hugh Miller - 1858 - 456 pages
...thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben VVevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows...marble. A line of snow ran along the opposite hills ; nil above was white, and all below was purple. They reminded me of the pretty French story, in which...
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