 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...sight, their tops reaching to the • very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cannon-shot. About noon they began to advance with con.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cannon shot. About nooi> they began to advance with considerable... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...reaching to the very clouds : there the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjointed, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon-shot. About noon, they began to advance with... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon shot. About noon they began to advance with... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 pages
...out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon shot. About noon, they began to advance with... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large cannon-shot. About noon they began to advance with considerable... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There those tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air and did not appear more. Sometimes theyf were broken near the middle, as if stricken by a cannon-ball. About noon they began to advance... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large canon-shot. About noon they began to advance with considerable... | |
 | Josiah Priest - Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 660 pages
...sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; aud these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if slruck with a large cannon shot. About noon they began to advance with... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon shot. About noon they began to advance with... | |
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... to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. 
