 ... in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the air white and thick as with snow, only the flakes are a foot or two long each; the surges themselves are full of foam in their very bodies, underneath, making them white all through, as the water...  Nature - Page 264edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...like a drapery, from its edge ; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...like a drapery, from its edge ; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 502 pages
...like a drapery from its edge ; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | 1857 - 452 pages
...like a drapery, from its edge ; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...half water and half air, are torn to pieces by the windwhenever they rise, and carried away in roaring smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...like a drapery, from its edge ; these are taken up by the wind, not iu dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...like a drapery, from its edge; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...their masses, being thus half water and half air, arc torn to pieces by the wind whenever they rise, and carried away in roaring smoke, which chokes... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...like a drapery from its edge; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 pages
...gathers into clotted concretions before the driving wind. The sea looks truly working or fermenting. are full of foam in their very bodies, underneath,...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...like a drapery, from its edge ; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...two long each ; the surges themselves are full of foam in their very bodies, underneath, making I hem white all through, as the water is under a great cataract...smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its moisture by long rain, the spray of the sea... | |
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