 | 1859 - 980 pages
...imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, ant! I beheld through the gap — thousands of feet overhead,...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. "You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1857 - 544 pages
...LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. in the existence of the island — went to bed, while I remained pacing up and down the deck, anxiously questioning each quarter...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | 1857 - 850 pages
...wreaths of vapor Deemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. "You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | 1858 - 734 pages
...a thicker fog than I should have thought the atmosphere capable of sustaining. I remained pacing up and down the deck, anxiously questioning each quarter...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. nificence of his 6,870 feet, girdled by a single zone of pearly vapour, from underneath whose... | |
 | 1858 - 738 pages
...and down the deck, anxiously questioning each quarter of the grey canopy that enveloped us. At lust, about four in the morning, I fancied some change was...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. " You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...wreathe of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap—...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. 4 You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | 1858 - 554 pages
...wreaths of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of grey split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands...suspended in the crystal sky, a cone of illuminated snow. You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | 1859 - 594 pages
...wreaths of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. "You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | 1859 - 386 pages
...of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating ; and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap, thousands of feet over head, as if suspended in the crystal sky, a.cone of illuminated snow." But ere he could summon... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1866 - 398 pages
...begun quite to disbelieve in the existence of the island — -went to bed, while I remained pacing up and down the deck, anxiously questioning each quarter...suspended in the crystal sky, a cone of illuminated snow." — Letters from High Latitudes. This effect did not, however, contain the contradiction that... | |
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I remained pacing up and down the deck, anxiously questioning each quarter of the grey canopy that enveloped us. At last, about four in the morning, I fancied some change was going to take place : the heavy wreaths of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly... 
