 There was little comfort in the thought, arising, as it did, amid the chills and terrors of a dreary midnight, and I looked wistfully on the sea as our only path of escape. There was a vessel crossing the wake of the moon at the time, scarce half a mile...  Men who Have Risen: A Book for Boys - Стр. 278авторы: James Hogg - 1859 - Страниц: 312Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - Страниц: 600
...fell, and the moon, in her last quarter, rose red as a mass of heated iron out of the sea. We crept down, in the uncertain light, over the rough slippery...murky blackness ; and just as we lost sight of her forever, we could hear an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of the waves, — the shout, in reply,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - Страниц: 572
...visible, and then disappearing in ',he murky blackness ; and just as we lost sight of her forever, we could hear an indistinct sound mingling with the...we afterwards learned, was a large stone-lighter, ieeply laden, and unfurnished with a boat ; nor were her crew at all sure that it would have been safe... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - Страниц: 570
...fell, and the moon, in her last quarter, rose red as a mass of heated iron out of the sea. We crept down, in the uncertain light, over the rough slippery...murky blackness ; and just as we lost sight of her forever, we could hear an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of the waves, — the shout, in reply,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - Страниц: 560
...fell, and the moon, in her last quarter, rose red as a mass of heated iron out of the sea. We crept down, in the uncertain light, over the rough slippery...murky blackness ; and just as we lost sight of her forever, we could hear an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of the waves, — the shout, in reply,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - Страниц: 580
...whether the tide had not fallen sufficiently far to yield us a passage ; but we found the waves «hafing among the rocks just where the tide-line had rested...hear an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of tha waves — the shout, in reply, of the startled helmsman. The vessel, as we afterwards learned,... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 562
...as our only path of escape. There was a vessel crossing the wake of the moon at the time, scarcely half a mile from the shore, and, assisted by my companion,...hear an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of waves — the ehout, in reply, of the startled helmsman. The vessel, as we afterwards learned, was... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - Страниц: 314
...wind fell, and the moon in her last quarter rose red as a mass of heated iron out of the sea. We crept down in the uncertain light, over the rough slippery...an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of the waves—the shout, in reply, of the startled helmsman. The vessel, as we afterwards learned, was a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - Страниц: 558
...real nature of our situation at length crossed my mind. It was not imprisonment for a tide to which WQ had consigned ourselves ; it was imprisonment for...murky blackness ; and just as we lost sight of her forever, we could hear .an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of the waves, — the shout, in... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - Страниц: 572
...her visible, and then disappearing in '.he murky blackness; and just as we lost sight of her forever, we could hear an indistinct sound mingling with the dash of the waves,—the shout, in reply, of the startled helmsman. The vessel, as we afterwards learned, was a... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - Страниц: 314
...top of my lungs, in the hope of being heard by the sailors. We saw her dim bulk passing slowly across the red, glittering belt of light that had rendered...— the shout, in reply, of the startled helmsman. 9. The vessel, as we afterward learned, was a large stonelighter, deeply laden, and unfurnished with... | |
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