 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...onward like a cloud of feathers, and, on passing, disclosed a wide space filled with fallen trees, naked stumps, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest. This space was about a fourth of a mile in breadth, and to my imagination resembled the dried-up bed... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1875 - 168 pages
...onwards like a cloud of feathers, and, on passing, disclosed a white space filled with fallen trees, naked stumps, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest. This space was about a quarter of a mile in breadth, and to my imagination resembled the dried-up bed... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875 - 942 pages
...onwards like a cloud of feathers, and on passing, disclosed a wide space filled with fallen trees, naked stumps, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest. This space was about a quarter of a mile in breadth, and to my imagination resembled the driedtip bed... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1877 - 812 pages
...Mississippi, with its thousands of snags and sawyers strewed in the sand and inclined in various degrees. The horrible noise resembled that of the great cataracts of Niagara, and as it howled along in the track of the desolating tempest produced a feeling in my mind .which it were impossible to describe.... | |
 | smith elder - 1877 - 802 pages
...onward like a cloud of feathers, and, on passing, disclosed a wide space filled with broken trees, naked stumps, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest. This space was about one fourth of a mile in breadth, and to my imagination resembled the dried-up... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 pages
...Mississippi, with its thousands of planters and sawyers strewed in the sand, and inclined in various degrees. The horrible noise resembled that of the great cataracts of Niagara, and as it howled along in the tract of the desolating tempest, produced a feeling in my mind which it is impossible to describe.... | |
 | Pictorial cabinet - 1878 - 574 pages
...whirling onward like a cloud of feathers, and on passing disclosed a wide space filled with broken trees, naked stumps, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest. This space was about the space of one-fourth of a mile in breadth, and to my imagination resembled... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1880 - 458 pages
...onward like a cloud of feathers, and, on passing, disclosed a wide space filled with broken trees, naked stumps, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest. This space was about one-fourth of a mile in breadth, and to my imagination resembled the dried-up... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 448 pages
...Mississippi, with its thousands of planters and sawyers strewed in the sand, and inclined in various degrees. The horrible noise resembled that of the great cataracts of Niagara, and, as it howled along in the track of the desolating tempest, produced a feeling in my mind which it is impossible to describe.... | |
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Mississippi, with its thousands of planters and sawyers, strewed in the sand, and inclined in various degrees. The horrible noise resembled that of the great cataracts of Niagara, and as... 
