 | 1872 - 692 páginas
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in 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, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 páginas
...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 (he hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house 10 house. So transient... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 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 barque of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of... | |
 | 1874 - 812 páginas
...light, pointing out the direction. They replied in the affirmative. Now the light disappeared ; but they saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as though it were a torch in a fisherman's barque, rising and sinking with the waves. The ship continued... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 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 barque of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of... | |
 | 1875 - 558 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 in sudden and passing gleams, a.« if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. Ну the time the latter hail ascended the round-house, the light ior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with...of his age, his form developed by every manly exerc orín the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 1012 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...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in tho hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 664 páginas
...latter had ascended the round-house the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterward in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch...in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and clown as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams that few attached... | |
 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 268 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...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... | |
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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... 
