 | 1832 - 548 Seiten
...us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock.and trembled for a few moments like a leaf. We looked...amazement, deprived almost of the power of speech. Many minutes elapsed before we were able to realize the dreadful accident, during which time he passed under... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 Seiten
...gave us such an appalling and tremendous jar as nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck...amazement, deprived almost of the power of speech. Many minutes elapsed before we were able to realize the dreadful accident, during which time he passed under... | |
 | 1834 - 604 Seiten
...gave us such an appalling and tremendous jar as nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck...amazement, deprived almost of the power of speech. Many minutes elapsed before we were able to realize the dreadful accident, during which time he passed under... | |
 | Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 400 Seiten
...gave us such an appalling and tremendous jar, as nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few minutes like a leaf. We looked at each other in perfect amazement, deprived almost of the power of... | |
 | 1845 - 376 Seiten
...gave us such an appalling and tremendous jar as nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few minutes like a leaf. We looked at each other in perfect amazement, deprived almost of the power of... | |
 | 1878 - 1114 Seiten
...forward of the fore-chains. "The ship," says the mate, from whose account this is condensed, "brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf." The whale passed under tbe vessel, scraping her keel as he went, came up ou the... | |
 | Alexander Starbuck - 1878 - 794 Seiten
...forward of tire fore-chains. "The ship," says the mate, from whose account this is condensed, "brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf." The whale passed under the vessel, scraping her keel as he went, came up on the... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1890 - 472 Seiten
...her, striking with his head just forward of her fore-chains. " The ship," says the mate, " brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf." She began to settle, but this was only a prelude. He came again, now going six... | |
 | Winthrop Lippitt Marvin - 1902 - 492 Seiten
...forward of the forechains. " The ship, " said First Mate Chase, in his account of the disaster, " brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf." The whale passed under the vessel, scraping her keel as he went, and lay on the... | |
 | Rufus Rockwell Wilson - 1902 - 372 Seiten
...of the forechains with a jar that nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf. We looked at each other with perfect amazement, deprived of the power of speech.... | |
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The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf. 
