 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 3801849Full view - About this book
 | 1910 - 532 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...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,... | |
 | Lucy Henderson Humphrey - 1910 - 572 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...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,... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 765 They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midair 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 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...like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walla of ancient... | |
 | 1910 - 408 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, * 5 Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were last in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction.... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 100 They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 105 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 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...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midair Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 52 pages
...approaching the region where reigns perpetual Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 765 They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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...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,... | |
 | 1915 - 316 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, 765 Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward, They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress 770 Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of... | |
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