 | Walter Scott - 1843 - Liczba stron: 722
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - Liczba stron: 714
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of enowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - Liczba stron: 850
...they now experienced the double agony of terror • and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - Liczba stron: 712
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled, forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...upon the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious shoots of snowy foam, as high as the mast nf a first rate manof-war, against the dark brow of thaprecipice.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - Liczba stron: 276
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a firstrate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - Liczba stron: 704
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward.liowcver; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...the crag, it was no longer visible. The signal of safely was lost among a thousand while breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the promontory, rose... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - Liczba stron: 612
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
 | Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1857 - Liczba stron: 210
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man of war, against the dark brow of the precipice. — SCOTT, Antiquary. SAME PASSAGE ADAPTED.... | |
 | James White - 1858 - Liczba stron: 316
...relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against thei dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - Liczba stron: 328
...relied, they now experienced the doable agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however ; but, when they arrived at the point from which they...prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice. The countenance of the old man fell.... | |
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Deprived of the view of the beacon on which they had relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they ought to have seen the crag, it was no longer... 
