 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of Desert from west to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand,...times, moving with great celerity ; at others, stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals, we thought they were corning in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in ths world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and- to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on wjth a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 346 pages
...magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of (lesart, from west to the north-west of them, they saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals they thought they were ioming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | 1802 - 574 pages
...that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, •we saw a number of prodigious fillars pf sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 446 pages
...prodigious pillars ofsandiit different distances, at times moving with great celerity, as others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming; in a very fewminutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving withgrcat celerity, as others stalking on with a majestic slowness j at intervals we thought they were... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 450 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west to nor th-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand,...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking w ith a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in a very few moments to overwhelm... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...a sight mirely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others (talking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in a very few moments... | |
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... few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. 
