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" ... to watch the gentle undulating billows, rolling their silver 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 monsters of the deep... "
Ocean Scenes: Or, The Perils and Beauties of the Deep : Being Interesting ... - Page 177
1854 - 492 pages
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...if to die a«ay 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 surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectrt, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1821 - 354 pages
...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...porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowlyheaving his huge form above the surface; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre, through...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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...slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the raveaous shark, darting like a spectre, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...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 monsters of the deep at theiruncouth gambols : shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship; the grampus, slowly...
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The American Manual, Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...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, —...the bow of the ship, — the grampus slowly heaving h;s huge form above the surface, — or the ravenous' shark, darting like a specter through the blue...
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The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...to die away on those ( happy shores. 3. 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, — shoaW of porpoises tumbling iibotit the bow of the ship, — the grampus slowly heaving his huge...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volumes 4-5

1834 - 536 pages
...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...heard or read of the watery world beneath me, of the tinny herds that roam its fathomless valleys ; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 5

1835 - 284 pages
...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...waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had board or read of the watery world beneath me, of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys;...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...a spectre, through the blue waters. My imagination \rould conjure* up all that I had heard or read of the watery world beneath me ; of the finny herds...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 pages
...Ap-lJTOX-i-ma'-tlon, a near approach c Rev'-e-rtes, loose thought*. 4 In'-ci-dents, things that happen. monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols, —...surface, — or the ravenous" shark, darting like a specter through the blue wa ters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the...
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