 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 - 1901 - 484 pages
...the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course • and, entering the Bayou 01 Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and...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, Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 380 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine,1 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,... | |
 | Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - 1901 - 360 pages
...less fortunate than ours have foundered and sunk with all on board." A CYPRESS SWAMP. THE ANHINGA. " Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and the trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike... | |
 | Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - 1901 - 356 pages
...less fortunate than ours have foundered and sunk with all on board." A CYPEESS SWAMP. THE ANHINGA. "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and the trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 214 pages
...region where reigns perpetual summer, Where through the Golden Coast, and groves of orange and citron, 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 - 1893 - 924 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 J7 o Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 744 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine,1 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,... | |
 | James Kendall Ewer - 1903 - 666 pages
...beautifully to this charming country, and the bayous by which it is watered. He speaks of these streams as a " maze of sluggish and devious waters, which like a network of steel extended in every direction." As the army marched through this " Eden of Louisiana," they saw over their heads the towering and tenebrous... | |
 | William Christopher Sayrs - 1903 - 384 pages
...entered the Bayou of Plaquemine. 3. The waters, which extended in every direction, were sluggish. 4. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress met in a dusky arch. 5. The trailing mosses resembled banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. 6. At sunset... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904 - 448 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,... | |
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