| 1812 - 572 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. Jtdid not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground ;' it moved very rapieffy, 'thongh it did not prove fatal to this celebrated traveller, or any of his companions,... | |
| James Bruce - 1813 - 584 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground with... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pàgines
...color like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce coyld turn to fall upon .the ground with... | |
| 1815 - 500 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn, to fall upon the ground, with... | |
| James Smith - 1815 - 942 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so com* pressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly ; for I scarce could turn, to fall upon the ground with... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of a rainbow, but not so compressed and thick : it did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground : it was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly ; for I could scarce turn to fall upon the ground with... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 384 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly ; for 1 scarce could turn to fall upon the ground with... | |
| 1824 - 604 pàgines
...feet high hum the ground. It was a kind of blush npon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground with my head to the northward, when I It-It the heat of its current plainly upon my face. \\ <• ail lay flat upon the ground, as if dead,... | |
| J H. Duckett - 1821 - 126 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbovi^ but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground with... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 382 pàgines
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly ; for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground with... | |
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