 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...surprised at the extent and hurry of the preparations ; hut the required measures were not complete, when a more awful hurricane burst upon them than the...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled, and at one time the whole... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...The barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity. As yet, the oldest sailors had not perceived a threatening in the sky, and were surprised at the...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled ; and, at one time, the... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity. As yet, the oldest sailors had not perceived even the threatening in the sky, and were surprised at the...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled, and at one time the whole... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1862 - 468 pages
...sky, and were surprised at the extent and hurry of the preparation ; but the required preparations were not completed, when a more awful hurricane burst...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatter*; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled, and at one time the whole... | |
 | Robert William Fraser - 1866 - 346 pages
...The barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity. As yet the oldest sailors had not perceived even a threatening in the sky, and were surprised...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters ; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled, and at one time the whole... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1866 - 468 pages
...when a more awful hurricane burst upon them than the most experienced had ever braved. PNEUMATICS. Nothing could withstand it ; the sails, already furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters ; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled, and at one time the whole... | |
 | National reading books - 1872 - 264 pages
...perceived even a threatening in the sky, and were surprised at the extent and hurry of the preparation ; but the required measures were not completed when...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters; even the bare masts and yards were in great part disabled ; and at one time the whole... | |
 | Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1857 - 494 pages
...preparations ; but the required measures were not completed, when a more awful hurricane burst upon thetii than the most experienced had ever braved. Nothing...sails, already furled, and closely bound to the yards, wore riven away in tatters ; even the yards and masts themselves were in great part disabled, and,... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...surprised at the extent and hurry of the preparations ; but the required measures were not complete when a more awful hurricane burst upon them than the...furled and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters ; even the bare yards and masts were in great part disabled, and at one time the whole... | |
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As yet, the oldest sailors had not perceived even a threatening in the sky, and were surprised at the extent and hurry of the preparations: but the required measures were not completed, when a more awful hurricane burst upon them than the most experienced... 
