 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3901849Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of Eteel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 472 pages
...course; and, entering "the Вагон of Plaipiemine, Soon were lost in 8 maze of sluggish and drvious waters, Which, like a net-work of steel, extended...every direction. Over their heads the towering and tcnebror.s burghs of the cypress Met in a dn.-ky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and i railing mosses in mid air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 pages
...coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They too swerved from their course ; and, entering...direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous bows of the cypress Met iu a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners that hang... | |
 | 1859 - 584 pages
...coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They too swerved from their course ; and, entering...direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous bows of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners that hang... | |
 | 1859 - 596 pages
...coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They too swerved from their course ; and, entering...direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous bows of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners that hang... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 pages
...from each side, nearly half arch it. "Over our heads the soft, tenebrous boughs of the willow Met in dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air waved, Like banners that hung on the walls of ancient cathedrals." The scenery seemed to me Arcadian, as we sailed up this winding... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - 1860 - 276 pages
...threaded, and the description of which I recalled with interest as I paddled in a canoe among them. "They too swerved from their course; and, entering...trailing mosses in mid- air Waved like banners that hung on the walls of ancient cathedrals." This moss is the most striking feature of the forest scenery.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 446 pages
...a maze of sluggish aud devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direetion. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky areh, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners that hung on the walls of ancient cathedrals.... | |
| |
