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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. "
The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume - Page 167
by Robert Southey - 1829 - 728 pages
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Tupper's Complete Poetical Works ...

Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 496 pages
...sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought...
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Notes, Critical, Illustrative & Practical on the Book of Job: With ..., Volume 2

1852 - 388 pages
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of deserlpfrom west and 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 coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm...
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A History of the earth and animated nature v.2, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to the northwest of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...different distances, at times moving with great celerity, and at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 41

1852 - 702 pages
...the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillais of 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 few minutes to overwhelm...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 1

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from the west and to the north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...different distances ; at times moving with great celerity, and at others stalking on with a majestic slowness : at intervals we thought they were coming in a...
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Palaestra stili Latini; or, Materials for translation into Latin prose ...

Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from the west to the 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 coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm...
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The Yankee Enterprise: Or The Two Millionaires; and Other Thrilling Tales

Moulton Hampton (pseud.?), Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - 1855 - 336 pages
...pillars of sand at various distances, sometimes moving with great velocity, sometimes stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and smalt quantities of sand did actually reach us more than once : again...
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The Mirror of the World: Or, Stories from All Climes

Moulton Hampton, Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - 1856 - 330 pages
...pillars of sand at various distances, sometimes moving with great velocity, sometimes stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually reach us more than once : again...
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Chambers's Papers for the People, Volumes 9-10

William Chambers - 1856 - 570 pages
...pillars of sand at various distances, sometimes moving with great velocity, sometimes stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually reach us more than once : again...
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Rovings on Land and Sea

Henry E. Davenport - 1857 - 336 pages
...pillars of sand at various distances, sometimes moving with great velocity, sometimes stalking on with, majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually reach us more than once : again...
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