 It didn't look as though there'd be any place to go, for as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a sea of waving grass, cypress and tangled mangrove thickets.  Thoth: A Romance ... - Side 69af Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1888 - 207 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1878 - 534 sider
...of the present Maharajah of Vizianagram. It is but a few days ago that I visited the locality, and as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a sheet of rice-fields under artificial irrigation. Such are the changes which a century of peace and... | |
 | 1878 - 538 sider
...of the present Maharajah of Vizianagram. It is but a few days ago that I visited the locality, and as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a sheet of rice-fields under artificial irrigation. Such are the changes which a century of peace and... | |
 | Maria J. Greer - 1879 - 390 sider
...The too-radiant sunlight had become subdued now. A soft mellow haze enwrapt the dreamy landscape, and as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a slumbrous quietude. All seemed sinking into that dewy cradle for rest and refreshment whence an awakening... | |
 | Hector Henri Malot - 1880 - 336 sider
...to see what was going on outside. The snow had buried everything, plants, bushes, saplings, trees ; as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a uniformly white uneven sheet. The sky was strewn with glittering stars, but bright as was their gleam,... | |
 | 1885 - 630 sider
...himself of the impossibility of penetrating into the cabin, he began anxiously scanning the horizon ; but as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a broken line of heaving water, flecked here and there with wooly banks of clouds; not a sail was to... | |
 | Hector Malot - 1887 - 546 sider
...see what was going on outside. The snow had buried everything,—plants. bushes, saplings, trees ; as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a uniformly white uneven sheet. The sky was strewn with glittering stars, but, bright as was their gleam,... | |
 | 1894 - 840 sider
...bright blue water, unflecked even by a single wreath of smoke, while on the shore stretched inward, as far as the eye could reach, there was nothing but a confused chaos of chimneys of factories and dwelling-houses belching forth smoke which the wind seemed... | |
 | 1905 - 744 sider
...country looked bleak and bare enough, and I wondered how any one could call it the "Emerald Isle." As far as the eye could reach there was nothing but a dreary expanse of cold, brown bog to be seen, save where, in the distance, I could just discern the... | |
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