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
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 242 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...were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, 9o And o'er their spirits there came a feeling of wonder and sadness, — Strange forebodings of ill,... | |
| 1894 - 1178 pages
...eyes and, leaning back in her chair with hands folded upon the open book, murmured half inaudibly : " Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banuers that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Death-like the silence reigned,... | |
| Minna Caroline Smith - 1894 - 230 pages
...from the main stream. When Evangeline and the people with her rowed out upon one of these bayous, — "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Lovely the moonlight was,... | |
| Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the et.st- 765 ward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous houghs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid- 770 air Waved like banners that... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1896 - 392 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 76S 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,... | |
| 1896 - 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,... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1896 - 548 pages
...Longfellow. All lovers of " Evangeline " will understand the reference. It was right at this place that They, too, swerved from their course, and, entering...every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenehrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1896 - 572 pages
...this place that They, too, swerved from their course, and, entering ihe Bayou of Ptaqueminc, S'ton were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...net-work of steel, extended in every direction. Over tSeir heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses... | |
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