| Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow ; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks... | |
| Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 516 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks... | |
| 1847 - 490 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...much violence that their masts quivered as if they should fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous... | |
| 1847 - 918 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so much violence, that the masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships... | |
| 1848 - 350 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow ; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks... | |
| 1848 - 376 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow ; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks... | |
| Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 sider
...midnight they were involved in " an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...violence that their masts quivered as if they would fall after each blow, and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable." The rudder of the Erebus was... | |
| 1848 - 626 sider
...midnight they were involved in " an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so much violence that tlifeir masts quivered as if they would fall after each blow, and the destruction of the ships seemed... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1849 - 450 sider
...our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so...that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow ; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks... | |
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