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" 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 uncouth gambols. Shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship, the grampus slowly heaving his huge... "
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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Studies in English and American Literature

Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 612 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height,...the surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a specter, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the...
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc.; for ...

Washington Irving - 1901 - 186 pages
...from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols,1 — shoals of porpoises2 tumbling about the bow of the ship; the grampus slowly...spectre, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure3 up all that I had heard or read of the watery world beneath me, — of the finny herds that...
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Selections from the Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1901 - 216 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height,...the surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a specter, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the...
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Irving's Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1901 - 536 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down from my giddy height,...above the surface; or the ravenous shark, darting, likt_ a spectre through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read...
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Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1901 - 538 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down from my giddy height,...the ship; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form 5 above the surface; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre through the blue waters. My imagination...
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Irving's Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1901 - 546 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. s ^ There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down from my giddy height,...the ship; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form 5 above the surface; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre through the blue waters. My imagination...
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Selections from Irving's Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1902 - 204 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height,...of the deep at their uncouth gambols, — shoals of pprpoises, tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus, slowly heaving his huge form above the...
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The Sketch Book, and Bracebridge Hall

Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down from my giddy height on the sters of the deep at their uncouth gambols : shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship...
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The Principles of Oral English

Erastus Palmer, L. Walter Sammis - 1906 - 248 pages
...volumes as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height,...the surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting like a specter through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the...
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Selections from Irving's Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 pages
...volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height,...the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols. 10 Shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form...
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