 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 412 pages
...that I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests ; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees,...thousand brave oaks in one part only of the forest of Dean blown down." I have paused more than once in the wilderness of America, to contemplate the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1835 - 276 pages
...that I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees,...thousand brave. oaks in one part only of the forest of Dean blown down." I have paused more than once in the wilderness of America, to contemplate the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1835 - 274 pages
...that I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests ; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees,...accounts," he adds, " reckon no less than three thousand bravt oaks in one part only of the forest of Dean blown down." I have paused more than once in the... | |
 | Fruit-culture - 1861 - 588 pages
...laying them in ghastly postifres, like whole regiments fallen in battle. The public account reckons no less than three thousand brave oaks in one part only of the forest of Dean blown down ; in New Forest in Hampshire about four thousand ; and in about four hundred and... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 640 pages
...our forests, when that late dreadful Hurricane, happening on the 26th of November, 1703, subverted so many thousands of goodly Oaks, prostrating the trees,...Conqueror, and crushing all that grew beneath them. — Myself had above 2,000 blown down ; several of which, torn up by their fall, raised mounds of earth,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1845 - 412 pages
...that I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests ; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees,...thousand brave oaks in one part only of the forest of Dean blown down." I have paused more than once in the wilderness of America, to contemplate the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 510 pages
...that I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests ; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees,...thousand brave oaks in one part only of the forest of Dean blown down." I have paused more than once in the wilderness of America, to contemplate the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 524 pages
...that I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests ; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees,...conqueror, and crushing all that grew beneath them. The puhlic accounts," he adds, " reckon no less than three thousand brave oaks in one part only of the... | |
 | England - 1853 - 420 pages
...purposely sent from Spain to procure the destruction, either by negotiation or treachery, of the oak growing in it. The same author, in his Sylva, states...eight thousand, and is almost entirely composed of the free miners. They are a fine, athletic, independent race of men, fond of boasting that the produce... | |
 | England - 1853 - 428 pages
...purposely sent from Spain to procure the destruction, either by negotiation or treachery, of the oak growing in it. The same author, in his Sylva, states...eight thousand, and is almost entirely composed of the free miners. They are a fine, athletic, independent race of men, fond of boasting that the produce... | |
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I still feel, the dismal groans of our forests ; the late dreadful hurricane having subverted so many thousands of goodly oaks, prostrating the trees, laying them in ghastly postures, like whole regiments fallen in battle by the sword of the conqueror,... 
