 | 1827 - 452 pages
...were visible on the lofckledge. But who shall scale that dizzy cliff*, which Mark Steuart the sarlor, who had been at the storming of many a fort, attempted in vain ? Allltept gazing, weeping, wringing of hands in vain, tobtci) to trre ground, or runnrag backwards... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...an incredibly short time, the foot of the mountain was alive with people. The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rock-ledge. But who shall scale that dizzy cliff, which Mark Stuart the sailor, who had been at the storming of many a fort, attempted in vain? All kept gazing,... | |
 | 1836 - 658 pages
...was alive with people. The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rock ledge. But who shall scale that dizzy cliff, which Mark Steuart,...attempted in vain? All kept gazing, weeping, wringing of bands in vain, rooted to the ground, or running back and forward, like so many ants essaying their... | |
 | Tales - 1839 - 128 pages
...the rocky ledge, which towered far above. But who shall scale the dizzy cliff, which Mark Stewart, who had been at the storming of many a fort, attempted in vain ? All kept gazing, weeping, wringing hands in vain, rooted to the ground, or running backwards and forwards like so many ants when their... | |
 | 1841 - 188 pages
...of the rocky ledge, which towered far above. But who shall scale the dizzy cliff which Mark Stewart, who had been at the storming of many a fort, attempted in vain? All kept gazing, weeping, wringing hands in vain, rooted to the ground, or running backwards and forwards like so many ants when their... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...an incredibly short time, the foot of the mountain was alive with people. The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rock-ledge....sailor, who had been at the storming of many a fort, A GLANCE OVER SELBf'S ORNITHOLOGY. 181 attempted in vain? All kept gazing, weeping, wringing of hands... | |
 | 1843 - 402 pages
...the rocky ledge, which towered far above. But who shall scale the dizzy cliff, which Mark Stewart, who had been at the storming of many a fort, attempted in vain ? All kept gazing, weeping, wringing hands in vain, rooted to the ground, or running backwards and forwards like so many ants when their... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...an incredibly short time, the foot 01 the mountain was alive with people. The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rock-ledge. But who shall scale that dizzy 15 cliff, which Mark Steuart, the sailor, who had been at the storming of many a fort, attempted in... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 336 pages
...an incredibly short time the foot of the mountain was alive with people. The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rockledge. But who shall scale that dizzy cliff, which Mark Stenart the sailor, who had been at the storming of many a fort, once attempted in vain ? All kept... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1853 - 332 pages
...old birds were visible on the rock ledge; but who shall scale that dizzy cliff, which Mark Stewart, the sailor, who had been at the storming of many a fort, once attempted in vain ? All kept gazing, or weeping, or wringing of band?, rooted to the ground, or... | |
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Lamond's bairn!' and many hundred feet were in another instant hurrying towards the mountain. Two miles of hill, and dale, and copse, and shingle, and many intersecting brooks lay between; but in an incredibly short time, the foot of the mountain was... 
