| Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 pages
...my companion, bursting into tears, " if it were not for my mother ; but what will my mother say V " Wouldn't care neither," said I, with a heavy heart...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1854 - 572 pages
...head should have been, there ex isted orly a sad mass of rubbish. I had examined the body as voung people are apt to do, a great deal too curiously for my peace ; and, though I had never done the poor nauieleai seaman any harm, I could not have suffered more from him during that melancholy night, had... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 pages
...with the decline of evening, almost every meteoric tint of anger, from fiery red to a sombre thnndrous brown, and from sombre brown to doleful black. And...never done the poor nameless seaman any harm, I could not^have suffered more from him* during that melancholy night, had I been his murderer. Sleeping or... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 550 pages
...examined the body, as young people are apt to do, a great deal too curiously for my peace ; and, thov*) I had never done the poor nameless seaman any harm,...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...heavier, now lighter, as the gusto swelled or sank ; and the intermittent patter of the stream 1-t over the deeper cave, now driving against the precipices,...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that... | |
| James Hogg - 1859 - 346 pages
...yet swollen to twice their proper size, had been bleached as white as pieces of alumed sheep- skin; and where the head should have been, there existed...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that... | |
| 1854 - 562 pages
...caves. We could hear, too, the beating rain, now heavier, now lighter, as the gusts swelled or sunk ; and the intermittent patter of the streamlet over...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 316 pages
...pieces of alumed sheepskin, and where the head should have been, there existed only a sad mass of decay. I had examined the body, as young people are apt to...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a dose, he would come stalking up the beach, from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers,... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 pages
...the intermittent patter of the streamlet over the deeper cave, now driving against the preci pices, now descending heavily on the stones. My companion...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...of alumed sheep-skin ; and where the head should have been, there existed only a sad mass of decay. I had examined the body, as young people are apt to...Sleeping or waking, he was continually before me. 6. Every time I dropped into a dose, he would come stalking up the beach, from the spot where he had... | |
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