 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1846 - 596 Seiten
...then retiring backwards discovered a great part of its bed, the stones of which were dashed backwards and forward with a rough and horrible noise. The sea,...than six feet, and the winds, which brushed along its surface, carried it beyond the steep clifls of the shore more than half a league into the island.... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1846 - 630 Seiten
...then retiring backwards discovered a great part of its bed, the stones of which were dashed backwards and forward with a rough and horrible noise. The sea,...moment, and the whole channel between this island aod the Isle of Amber, appeared to be an immense sheet of white foam, hollowed into deep and dusky... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1879 - 410 Seiten
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1881 - 298 Seiten
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 454 Seiten
...stones with a harsh and frightful sound. The sea, swollen by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was one vast sheet of white foam full of yawning black depths. Heaps of this foam more than six feet... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 558 Seiten
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
 | Jules Verne - 1899 - 320 Seiten
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the whole channel between this island and the isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 Seiten
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment; and the whole channel between this island and the isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the whole channel between this island and the Isle of Amber was soon one vast sheet of white foam, full of yawning pits of black and deep billows. Heaps of this... | |
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... shingle to the distance of fifty feet upon the land ; then, rushing back, laid bare its sandy bed, from which it rolled immense stones, with a hoarse and dismal noise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the wind, rose higher every moment ; and the... 