 Their veering about, apparently without effort, and the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings, filled them with astonishment. When they beheld their boats approach the shore, and a number of strange beings clad in glittering steel,...  Monarchs of ocean: Columbus and Cook - Page 531866Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...watched their movements with awful anxiety. Their veering about, apparently without effort; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings,...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue nor molest them, they gradually... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1828 - 574 pages
...Cisas, Hist. lod, I. i, e. 40. Chap. I.] IN THE NEW WORLD. 241 apparently without effort ; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings,...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue, nor molest them, they gradually... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...watched their movements with awful anxiety. Their veering about, apparently without effort ; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings,...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue nor molest them, they gradually... | |
 | English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...watched their movements with awful anxiety . Their veering about, apparently without effort; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings,...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue, nor molest them, they gradually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pages
...apparently without effort; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings, filled'them with astonishment. When they beheld their* boats approach the shore, and a number of strange beings clad.in glittering steel, or raiment of various colours, landing upon the beach, they' fled in affright... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...movements with awful anxiety. Their THE EXTRACTOR. veering about, apparently without effort ; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings,...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue nor molest them, they gradually... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...from the deep during the night. Their reeling about, without any apparent effort, and the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings, filled them with astonishment. When they beheld the boats approach the shore, and a number of strange beings, clad in glittering steel, or raiment... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...watched their movements with awful anxiety. Their veering about, apparently without effort ; the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings,...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue nor molest them, they gradually... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1835 - 436 pages
...their sails, resembling huge wings, filled them with astonishment. When they beheld the boats approacn the shore, and a number of strange beings clad in...colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that * In the Tablas Chronologicas of Padre Claudio Clemente, is conserved... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1838 - 534 pages
...intense anxiety. Their veering about, apparently without effort, the shifting and furling of their soils, resembling huge wings, filled them with astonishment....colours, landing upon the beach, they fled in affright to their woods. Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue, nor to molest them, they gradually... | |
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