 The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming in the river below as many whirlpools as there were arches. Truly tremendous was the roar of the descending...  Dollar Monthly Magazine - Page 1001865Full view - About this book
 | George Borrow - 1851 - 578 pages
...confounded The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming...time, and then cast them forth, foaming and frothing from their horrid wombs. Slowly advancing along the bridge. I came to the highest point, and there... | |
 | George Borrow - 1851 - 420 pages
...The tide, which VOL. ir. c was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming...time, and then cast them forth, foaming and frothing from their horrid wombs. Slowly advancing along the bridge, I came to the highest point, and there... | |
 | George Borrow - 1872 - 440 pages
...confounded. The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming...tremendous was the roar of the descending waters, und the bellow of the tremendous gulfs, which swallowed them for a time, and then cast them forth,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...formed the pavement! In fact, there was a wild hurly-burly upon the bridge which nearly deafened me. the river below as many whirlpools as there were arches....advancing along the bridge, I came to the highest point, and there I stood still, close beside one of the stone bowers, in which, beside a fruit stall, sat... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Henry Noble MacCracken, Alfred Arundel May, Thomas Goddard Wright - 1909 - 432 pages
...confounded. The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming...time, and then cast them forth, foaming and frothing from their horrid wombs. Slowly advancing along the bridge, I came to the highest point, and there... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Henry Noble MacCracken, Alfred Arundel May, Thomas Goddard Wright - 1920 - 696 pages
...confounded. The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming...time, and then cast them forth, foaming and frothing from their horrid wombs. Slowly advancing along the bridge, I came to the highest point, and there... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 360 pages
...confounded. The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming...time, and then cast them forth, foaming and frothing from their horrid wombs. Slowly advancing along the bridge, I came to the highest point, and there... | |
 | 1865 - 970 pages
...confounded. The tide, which was fast ebbing, obstructed by the immense piers of the old bridge, poured beneath the arches with a fall of several feet, forming in the river below as many whirlpool» as there were arches. Truly tremendous was the roar of the descending waters and the bellow... | |
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