 The breeze had been fresh all day, with more sea than usual, and they had made great progress. At sunset they had stood again to the west, and were ploughing the waves at a rapid rate, the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Side 91828Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 454 sider
...the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...the top of the castle or cabin on the high poop of * Hist. del Almirante, cap. 21. VOL. I. 7* his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 sider
...to the pension to be given by the sovereigns. About ten o'clock at night, while Columbus was sitting on the top of the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, he thought he beheld a glimmering light at a distance. Fearing that his hopes might deceive him, he... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 sider
...board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. The greatest animation now prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...evening darkened, Columbus took his station on the high poop of the vessel, and with the most painful anxiety kept ranging his eye along the horizon.... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sider
...the Pinta keeping ihe lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the evening darkened, Columbus took his elation on the top ot the casile or cabin on ihe high poop of his vessel. However he might carry a... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sider
...ihe Pinta keeping the lead, Irom her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout v ҿ 0~ =m Iw? ~ K N Dr o ~ w j/< x ˷ ޱ | } ? elation on the top ot the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel. However he might carry a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 444 sider
...the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The {rreatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch. About ten... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 788 sider
...the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not on eye was closed that night. As the evening darkened,...him a time of the most painful anxiety; and now when he was wrapped from observation by the shades of night, he maintained an intense and unremitting watch,... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 sider
...to the pension to be given by the sovereigns. About-ten o'clock at night, while Columbus was sitting on the top of the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, he thought he beheld a glimmering light at a distance. Fearing that his hopes might deceive him, he... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 sider
...increasing as their fears increased, and thus guiding them to the promised land. As the evening darkened, he took his station on the top of the castle or cabin, on the high stern of his vessel. About ten o'clock he thought he beheld a light glimmering in the distance. Fearing... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 sider
...the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the...a time of the most painful anxiety ; and now, when he was wrapped from observation by the shades of night, he maintained an intense and unremitting watch,... | |
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