 Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the roundhouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman,...  Life and Works of Washington Irving - Page 41by Washington Irving - 1883Full view - About this book
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...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...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the baad of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...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...the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house.... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...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...shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...round house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and pass• ing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark 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... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...latter bad ascended As round-bouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - America - 1833 - 290 pages
...same direction, and they also perceived the light — again and again it appeared and disappeared, " as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman,...borne up and down as he walked from house to house." At two in the morning, the Pinta fired a gun, the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice allerwimls. in sudden r.nd passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark...sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on snore, borne up and down ns he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1834 - 364 pages
...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 in the bark of a fisherman, rising aud sinking with the waves. or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1838 - 534 pages
...latter had ascended the round-house, the light hud disappeared. They saw it om:e or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch...as he walked from house to house. So transient and unceitain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however, considered... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...disappeared. They saw it onee or j twiee afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a toreh in the bark 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... | |
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