| 1828 - 448 pages
...descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies.* The natives of the island were no less objects of...ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colours. With some... | |
| English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...descended from above on their ample wings, ami that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies.* The natives of the island were no less objects of...had ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of cither wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colours.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pages
...from above o'n their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies.' The natives of the island were no less objects of...had ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of ' The idea that the white men came from heaven was universally entertained by the inhabitants of the... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. The natives of the island were no less objects of...ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colours. With some... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - Children's literature - 1842 - 418 pages
...from above, on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. " The natives of the island were no less objects of...differing, as they did, from any race of men they had seen. They were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colors and devices, so as to give them... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's literature - 1844 - 340 pages
...from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. " The natives of the island were no less objects of...differing, as they did, from any race of men they had seen. They were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colors and devices, so as to give them... | |
| Conway Robinson, Virginia Historical Society - America - 1848 - 590 pages
...from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies.* " The natives of the island were no less objects of...ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colours. With some... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 454 pages
...descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of the skies.* The natives of the island were no less objects of...ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colors. With some... | |
| Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 756 pages
...descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of the skies.* The natives of the island were no less objects of...ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colors. With some... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 450 pages
...descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of the skies.* The natives of the island were no less objects of...ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colors. With some... | |
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