 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of Desert from west to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances ; at times, moving with great celerity ; at others, stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals, we thought they were corning in a... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 346 pages
...most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of (lesart, from west to the north-west of them, they saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at...different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals they thought they were ioming in a very... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pages
...of the most magnificent in ths world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and- to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on wjth a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 438 pages
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving withgrcat celerity, as others stalking on with a majestic slowness j at intervals we thought they were... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - Atmosphere - 1808 - 452 pages
...the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west to nor th-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...mirely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others (talking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in a very few... | |
 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1813 - 584 pages
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Africa - 1814 - 396 pages
...tiie most magnificent tights in nature. In that vast expanse of desert, from west to north-west, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others proceedmg with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming suddenly to... | |
 | Robert Southey - Heraldic bookplates - 1814 - 304 pages
...magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a numher of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in a very few... | |
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... with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand, did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching... 
