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Great Shipwrecks: A Record of Perils and Disasters at Sea. 1544-1877 ... - Page 67
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1877 - 637 pages
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...the mind from worldly themes. I delighted to loll over the quarter railing, or climb to the main top, of a calm day, and muse for hours together on the...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own. To watch the gently undulating billows, rolling their silver volumes,...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...them some fair}' realms, and people them with a creation of my own, or to watch the gentle unduhiling billows rolling their silver volumes, as if to die...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. I delighted to loll over the quarter railing, or climb to the main-top, of a calm day, and muse...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 pages
...the main- top on a calm day, and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a summer's sea ; or to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just peering...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 pages
...just peering above the horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of iny own. To watch the gentle undulating billows rolling...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...horizon ; fancy them some fairy realms, and people thon with a creation of my ownTo watch the gently undulating billows, rolling their silver volumes,...shores. •- There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. 1 A v! \ THE VOYAGE. 17 *•' cfelighted to loll over the quarter-railing or climb to the main-top,...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at theiruncouth...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1831 - 518 pages
...arc the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. I delighted to loll over the quarter-railing or climb...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...peering above the horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own, or to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away on those monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols, — shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the...
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