 ... of the robbers, I counted one, two, three, yes, up to twelve, successively of the largest sharks I ever saw, floating in a circle around me, like divergent rays, all mathematically equi-distant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless,...  The Metropolitan - Page 3011845Full view - About this book
 | J. Cypress - American poetry - 1842 - 272 pages
...mathematically equi-distant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me....unchewed game, at which a pack of hunting sea-dogs was making a dead point ! There was one old fellow, that kept within the circumference of the circle.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1842 - 524 pages
...mathematically equidistant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me....radii were sharks ; I was the unsprung, or, rather, nnclieieed game, at which a pack of hunting sea-dogs were making a dead point ! " There was one old... | |
 | J. Cypress - American poetry - 1842 - 274 pages
...mathematically equi-distant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me....Basilisks and rattle-snakes ! how the fire of their stead}' eyes entered into my heart ! I was the centre of a circle, whose radii were sharks ! I was... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...mathematically equidistant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me Basilisks and rattlesnakes ! how the fire of thei steady eyes entered into my heart ! I was the centr of a circle, whose radii were sharks : I was... | |
 | 486 pages
...mathematically equi-distant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me....hunting sea-dogs were making a dead point. There was one fellow that kept within the circumference of the circle. He seemed to be a sort of captain, or leader... | |
 | William Trotter Porter - 1846 - 442 pages
...mathematically equidistant from the rock, and from each other; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye, fixed full and fierce upon me....fire of their steady eyes entered into my heart ! I WES the centre of a circle, whose radii were sharks ! I was the unsprung, or rather unchewed game,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...mathematically equidistant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with hia gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me....whose radii were sharks! I was the unsprung, or rather vnchnred game, at which a pack of hunting sea-dogs was making a dend point ! There was one old fellow,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me. Basilisks arid rattle-snakes 1 how the fire of their steady eyes entered into my...radii were sharks ! I -was the unsprung, or rather vnchevicd game, at which a pack of hunting sea-dogs was making a dead jxjiut! There was one old fellow,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...mathematically equidistant from the rock, and from each other; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye fixed full and fierce upon me....the fire of their steady eyes entered into my heart II was the centre of a circle, whose radii were sharks! I was the unsprung, or rather wywAnmf game,... | |
 | William Trotter Porter - American wit and humor - 1858 - 480 pages
...mathematically equidistant from the rock, and from each other; each perfectly motionless, and with his gloating, fiery eye, fixed -full and fierce upon me....the centre of a circle, whose radii were sharks ! I the unsprung, or rather unchewed game, at which a pack of hunting sea-dogs were making a dead point... | |
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