 | Arthur Bennett Archer - 1915 - 224 páginas
...at a great distance." Afraid of making a mistake he called others to witness the remarkable sight, "as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves." About two in the morning the land was seen clearly, and the ships hove to, waiting for the dawn. The... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 páginas
...ascended the roundhouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking 15 with the waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 páginas
...ascended the roundhouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking 15 with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 páginas
...Segovia, and made the same enquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the Round House1 the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards...sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the barque of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore,... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1924 - 156 páginas
...Sego-via, and made the same inqui-ry. By the time the latter had asc,e-nded the round-house the light had disappea-red. 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 Bennett Black - 1926 - 220 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 if it were a torch on the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hands of some person on shore,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2013 - 497 páginas
...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...a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or hi the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 páginas
...disappeared. They saw it onee or twiee afterwards in sadden and passing gleams, as if it were a toreh in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shere, borne up and down as he walked from heuse to heuse. So transient and uneertain were these gleams,... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 páginas
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-bouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing 180 181 r!»ams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking wilh the waves,... | |
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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... 
