 The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging : the laboring masts seem straining from their base : the dismal sound of the pumps is heard : the ship leaps, as it •were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing...  The North American Review - Page 142edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...waves* The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem strain* ing from their base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps...over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel. — • I see them, escaped from these perils, pursuing... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging; the labouring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound...billow to billow; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the stag... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...the high and giddy waves. The aw55 ful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dismal...to billow ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulphing floods over the floating deck, 60 and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base;—the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ;—the ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow to billow;—the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulphing floods over the floating deck, 65 —poorly... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dismal...over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel. " The design of the writer in this passage, is to excite... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - English language - 1829 - 62 pages
...on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging ; the labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal...billow to billow; the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging; the labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the stag... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem strain-' ing from their base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps...— the ship leaps, as it were, madly from billow to biK low ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods •v«r the floating deck, and beats... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 420 pages
...raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The aw55 ful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base;...to billow : — the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, 60 and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the... | |
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