Faint flashes of lightning-, attended sometimes by very distant thunder, are then seen to vibrate in quick succession. The clouds in that quarter become gradually more dense and black ; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other.... The Monthly Magazine - Side 1861810Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| African Institution (London, England). - 1807 - 644 sider
...as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or hcdrd only at loog intervals, draws nearer by degrees, and becomes more...increases, until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped in the darkness of midnight : and it is rendered still more awful, by being contrasted with a gleam... | |
| Africa Institution, London - 1807 - 444 sider
...dense and black; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...degrees, and becomes more frequent and tremendous. The blackneis of the clouds increases, until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped in the darkness... | |
| 1812 - 528 sider
...dense and black; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...increases, until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped in the darkness of midnight: and it is rendered still more tremendous, by being contrasted with a gleam... | |
| 1812 - 564 sider
...dense and black; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long intervals, draws nearer by degrees, and beco'nes more frequent and tremendous. The blackness of the clouds increases, until a great part of... | |
| African Institution (London, England) - 1814 - 114 sider
...dense and black; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder- which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...draws nearer by degrees, and becomes more frequent aid tremendous. The blackness of the clouds increases, until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped... | |
| 1818 - 384 sider
...dense and black ; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...increases, until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped in the darkness of midnight, and it is rendered still more tremendous by being contrasted with a gleam... | |
| 1824 - 326 sider
...dense and black, they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other : the thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...clouds increases, until a great part of the heavens seem wrapped in the darkness of midnight, and it is rendered still more awful by being contrasted with... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1835 - 736 sider
...dense and black; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...frequent and tremendous. The blackness of the clouds increase until a great part of the heavens seem wrapped in the darkness of midnight : and it is rendered... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 388 sider
...dense and black ; they also increase in bulk, and appear as if heaped on each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long...increases until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped in the darkness of midnight : and it is rendered still more awful, by being contrasted with a gleam... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1810 - 726 sider
...each other. The thunder, which at first was scarcely noticed, or heard only at long intervals, drawl nearer by degrees, and becomes more frequent and tremendous....increases, until a great part of the heavens seems wrapped in the darkness of midnight ; and it is rendered still more iwl'ul, by being contrasted with a gleam... | |
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