 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1883 - 170 páginas
...smoothly without any break or hindrance for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff sheer, and straight, and shining. The water neither...planed, and looking like a plank of deal laid down a.deep black staircase. However, there was no side rail, nor any place to walk on, only the channel... | |
 | Richard Doddridge Blackmore - 1886 - 568 páginas
...without any break or hindrance, for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer, and straight, and shining. The water neither...down a deep black staircase. However there was no side-rail, nor any place to walk upon, only the channel a fathom wide, and the perpendicular walls... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - 1897 - 248 páginas
...without any break or hindrance, for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer, and straight, and shining. The water neither...However, there was no side rail, nor any place to walk upon, only the channel a fathom wide, and the perpendicular walls of crag shutting out the evening.... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 páginas
...without any break or hindrance, for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer, and straight, and shining. The water neither...However, there was no side rail, nor any place to walk upon, only the channel a fathom wide, and the perpendicular walls of crag shutting out the evening.... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1898 - 412 páginas
...water, coming without any break for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer and straight and shining. The water neither...with any spouting, but made one even slope of it. 3. Then said I to myself : " John Ridd, these trees and pools and lonesome rocks and setting of the... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 404 páginas
...water, coming without any break for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer and straight and shining. The water neither...with any spouting, but made one even slope of it. 3. Then said I to myself : " John Ridd, these trees and pools and lonesome rocks and setting of the... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 412 páginas
...water, coming without any break for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer and straight and shining. The water neither...with any spouting, but made one even slope of it. 3. Then said I to myself: " John Ridd, these trees and pools and lonesome rocks and setting of the... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1900 - 250 páginas
...a hundred yards or more. The water neither ran nor fell, nor leaped, but made one even slope of it, looking like a plank of deal laid down a deep "black staircase. The look of this place had a sad effect, scaring me very greatly, and making me feel that I would give... | |
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I came to a sudden sight and marvel such as I never dreamed of. For, lo! I stood at the foot of a long pale slide of water, coming smoothly to me without any break or hindrance for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer and... 
