 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
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 234 pagine
...disappeared. 3. 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. 4. They continued their course until two... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterward in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch on the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he passed from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams that few attached any importance... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterward in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch on the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he passed from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams that few attached any importance... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 pagine
...and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he passed from house to house. So transient and uncertain were...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 - 1885 - 474 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... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pagine
...had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing 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 in the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1891 - 412 pagine
...torches in the barks of fishermen, rising and sinking on the waves, or in the hand of some person on the shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So certain were they that they were approaching land, and so eager to sight it during the night, that... | |
 | 1892 - 568 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice, afterward in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising; and sinking with...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 - 1894 - 422 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... | |
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