 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 páginas
...of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 páginas
...Segovia ; but before he came, it had disappeared ; they saw it, nevertheless, twice afterwards, in sudden gleams, as if it were a 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. Columbus considered this appearance... | |
 | 1852 - 782 páginas
...round-house, the light had disap-peared. They saw it once or twice afterwards m sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising...some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked trom house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 páginas
...pension of 30 crowns liad been promised by the sovereigns to the first man who should discover land. as if it were a 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. Columbus considered this appearance... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 páginas
...a third person had been summoned, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, as if it were a 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. These gleams were,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 páginas
...of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1856 - 794 páginas
...ilio same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappear! d. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and Making wilh the waves: or in the hand of some... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1858 - 482 páginas
...Sanchez, of Segovia, and made the inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards,...torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking w ith the waves. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 páginas
...Sanchery, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 páginas
...of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some... | |
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... 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, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that... 
