 For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last ; for the Taugwalders, utterly unnerved, were not only incapable of giving assistance, but were in such a state that a slip might have been expected from them...  Swiss pictures, drawn by E. Whymper - Page 102by Samuel Manning - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 pages
...trembled in such a manner as to threaten us with the fate of the others. Immediately we had descended to a safe place I asked for the rope that had broken,...I say that immediately we got to the easy part of SEARCH FOR THE BODIES. 83 the descent he was able to laugh, smoke, and eat as if nothing had happened.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 712 pages
...terror, cried like infants, and trembled in such a manner as to threaten us with the fate of the others For more than two hours afterwards I thought every...or the other at any moment. I do the younger man, however, no injustice when I say that immediately we got' to the easy part of the descent he was able... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 750 pages
...terror, cried like infants, and trembled in such a manner as to threaten us with the fate of the others For, more than two hours afterwards I thought every...or the other at any moment. I do the younger man, however, no injustice when I say that immediately we got to the easy part of the descent he was able... | |
 | Edward Whymper - Alps - 1871 - 520 pages
...did not appear to have sustained previous injury. For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last ; for...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time, we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Mountaineering - 1872 - 418 pages
...hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last ; for the Taugwalclers, utterly unnerved, were not only incapable of giving...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time, we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - Discoveries in geography - 1876 - 328 pages
...hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last, for the Tangwalders, utterly unnerved, were not only incapable of giving...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and... | |
 | Mark Twain - Americans - 1879 - 652 pages
...to help them. So perished our comrades ! ***** For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last; for the...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and... | |
 | Mark Twain - Europe - 1880 - 658 pages
...help them. So perished our comrades ! # # * # # For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last ; for...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and... | |
 | Edward Whymper - Matterhorn - 1880 - 396 pages
...did not appear to have sustained previous injury. For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last ; for...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1880 - 348 pages
...to help them. So perished our comrades ! ***** For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last, for the...a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment. After a time we were The Mournful Return. 1 3 3 able to do that which should have... | |
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