 Sanchez of Segovia and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the roundhouse the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and...  Bentley's Miscellany - Pagina 3841867Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1828 - 722 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and moreover, that the land was inhabited. ' They continued their course until two in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | 1828 - 448 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | 1828 - 438 pagine
...passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and pass• ing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 600 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and moreover, that the land was inhabited. " They continued their course, until two... | |
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