 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 hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient...  Columbia: A Story of the Discovery of America - Página 198de John Roy Musick - 1891 - 345 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1828 - 722 páginas
...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however,... | |
 | 1828 - 438 páginas
...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 down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 páginas
...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them; Columbus, however,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 páginas
...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 uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however,... | |
 | 1830 - 428 páginas
...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 uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 páginas
...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 608 páginas
...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 290 páginas
...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or, in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house." At two in the morning, the Pinta fired a gun, the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1835 - 358 páginas
...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however,... | |
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