 I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they...  The Intellectual Observer - Page 3321868Full view - About this book
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 pages
...fall of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. The stone avalanches of the Alps are sometimes seen to smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer, while the snowflakes descend so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they are composed... | |
 | Elisha Gray - 1899 - 264 pages
...a fall of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they are composed. Yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity which a child could carry of that tender... | |
 | 1900 - 1124 pages
...fall of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. The stone avalanches of the Alps are sometimes seen to smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer, while the snow-flakes descend so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they are composed... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1904 - 462 pages
...— and the wild scenery of the Alps? "I have seen," he says, "the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1904 - 608 pages
...carrier of giant horse-power. " I have seen," says Tyndall, " the wild stoneavalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. 1 have also seen snowPOWER WITHIN THE CLOUDS flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile... | |
 | 1891 - 588 pages
...Water furnishes a still subtler example. . . . The stone avalanches of the Alps are sometimes seen to smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer, while the snow-flakes descend so softly aa not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they are composed;... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 pages
...causing these processes. " I have seen," says Professor Tyndall, " the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes d«scending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce... | |
 | 1915 - 498 pages
...understood but important truth the great physicist says: "I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observed. ] have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of... | |
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