 | 1868 - 746 sider
...three long hours in this painful position, and still our island held together, when suddenly it wag caught by the storm and hurled against a large field...us giving way and separating in every direction. At this dreadful moment, when destruction seemed inevitable, the impulse of self-preservation implanted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice; the crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape teemed impossible,... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice; the crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the storm, and hurled ngainst a large field of ice; the crash was terrifie, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments.... | |
 | 1845 - 356 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice ; the crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible,... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 506 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice ; the crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice. The crash was terrific, and the mass beneath ns iras shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible,... | |
 | 1849 - 238 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice ; the crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment when escape seemed impossible,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice. The crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 sider
...be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the...a large field of ice. The crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible,... | |
| |
... inactivity on the wild conflict of the elements, expecting every moment to be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the storm, and hurled against... 
