 Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are hundreds standing in that rocky channel, and hundreds on the bridge above, all holding their breath, and awaiting the fearful catastrophe. The poor boy hears the hum of new and numerous voices both...  The Repository - Seite 2271860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1844 - 372 Seiten
...too high, too faint, to ask for his father andmother, his brothers and sisters, to come and avert his destruction. But one of his companions anticipates...channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon his father's hearth stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are hundreds standing... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 430 Seiten
...and i>islcrs, to come and witness or avert his destruction. Eut one of his companions anticipates hia desire. Swift as the wind, he bounds down the channel, and the situation of the fated boy u to.d uj-oj his father's hearth stone. Minutes of almost eternal length rolled on, and there are hundreds... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 430 Seiten
...faint, to ask for his father and mother, his brothers and sisters, to come and witness nr avert his destruction. But one of his companions anticipates his desire. Swift as the wind, he bounds down ths channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told uj on his father's hearth stone. Minutes of... | |
 | Eliza W. Smith - 1848 - 254 Seiten
...over the human heart when the King of Terrors shakes his sword at his victim, at any time or place. Swift as the wind he bounds down the channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon his father's 93 hearth-stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and then there are hundreds... | |
 | William Wayte Andrew - 1849 - 942 Seiten
...faint, to ask for his father and mother, Ms brothers and sisters, to come and witness or avert his destruction. But one of his companions anticipates...channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon his father's hearth-stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are hundreds standing... | |
 | Elihu Burritt - 1854 - 400 Seiten
...faint, to ask for his father and mother, his brothers and sisters, to come and witness or avert his destruction.- But one of his companions anticipates...channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon his father's hearth-stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are hundreds standing... | |
 | James Caughey - 1854 - 464 Seiten
...brothers and sisters, to come and witness or avert his destruction. But one of his companions autici pates his desire. Swift as the wind, he bounds down the...channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon hi> father's hearth-stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are '"Ihundreds... | |
 | 1855 - 902 Seiten
...faint, to ask for his father and mother, his brothers and sisters, to come and witness or avert his destruction. But one of his companions anticipates...channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon his father's hearth-stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are hundreds standing... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1855 - 440 Seiten
...faint, to ask for his father and mother, his brothers and sisters, to come and witness or avert his destruction. But one of his companions anticipates...channel, and the situation of the fated boy is told upon his father's hearth-stone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and there are hundreds standing... | |
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