 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 - 1922 - 910 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Boon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...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... | |
 | Longfellow - 1922 - 722 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...every direction. Over their heads the towering and tens.. brous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1927 - 712 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 120 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,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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 midair ios Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1934 - 784 pages
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