 The breeze had been fresh all day, with more sea than usual, and they had made great progress. At sunset they had stood again to the west, and were ploughing the waves at a rapid rate, the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 91828Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ship* • not an eye was closed that night. As the evening darkened,...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, rang'ng his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch. About ten... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1020 pages
...the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch. About ten... | |
 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 268 pages
...rate, the Pinta keeping the lead from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the...a time of the most painful anxiety ; and now, when he was wrapped from observation by the shades of night, he maintained an intense and unremitting watch,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1883 - 240 pages
...keeping the lead, from her swifter sailing. 10. The greatest eagerness and bustle prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and constant watch. About ten o'clock... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1883 - 1084 pages
...the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch. About ten... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...rate, the Pinta keeping the lead from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch. About ten... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...Beerenberg is a conical volcano nearly 7000 feet high. 124. The first fires of the New Hemisphere.— 'As the evening darkened, Columbus took his station...the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the PAGE dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch. About... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pages
...rate, the Pinta keeping the lead from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...took his station on the top of the castle or cabin of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...rate, the Pinta keeping the lead from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...took his station on the top of the castle or cabin of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 pages
...rate, the Pinta keeping the lead from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the...took his station on the top of the castle or cabin of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting... | |
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