 Small, green plats, where those creatures nibble the wild flowers, became now more frequent; trodden lines, almost as easy as sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brushwood dwindled away into straggling shrubs,...  Parley's Magazine - Page 131843Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...and now the brushwood dwindled any ad sti ai'.;;lirifz shrubs, and the party stood on a little erawaa above the stream, and forming part of the strath. There had been trouble and agitation, much and many tears, among the multitude, while the was scaling the cliff!,; sublime waa the about thal... | |
 | Robert Mudie - Natural history - 1830 - 406 pages
...sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger ; and now the brushwood dwindled' away into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on a little...among the multitude, while the mother was scaling the cliffs,—sublime was the shout that echoed afar the moment she reached the eyrie,—and now that her... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brushwood dwindled away into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on a little...among the multitude, while the mother was scaling the cliffs,—sublime was the shout that echoed afar the moment she reached the eyrie,—and now that her... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers (Elementary) - 1841 - 286 pages
...sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brushwood dwindled awav into straggling shrubs, and the party stood .on a little...the cliffs, — sublime was the shout that echoed afar,the moment she reached the eyrie, — and now that her salvation was sure, the great crowd rustled... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brush-wood dwindled away into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on a little...among the multitude, while the mother was scaling the cliffs—sublime was the shout that echoed afar the moment she reached the eyrie—then had succeeded... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...shrubs ; and the party stood on a little eminence above the stream, and forming part of the strath. 25 There had been trouble and agitation, much sobbing,...that echoed afar the moment she reached the eyrie ; — then had succeeded a silence deep as death; — in a little while arose 30 the hymning prayer,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brush-wood dwindled away into straggling shrubs; and the party stood on a little...above the stream, and forming part of the strath. Not a word was spoken,—eyes said enough,—she hushed her friends with her hands,—and, with uplifted... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 336 pages
...dam had not led her young into danger ; and now the brushwood dwindled away into straggling shrnbs, and the party stood on a little eminence above the...sobbing and many tears, among the multitude, while the mother.was scaling the cliffs — sublime was the shout that echoed afar the moment she reached the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 328 pages
...sheep-paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger ; and now the brushwood dwindled away into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on a little...stream, and forming part of the strath. There had been tronble and agitation, much sobbing and many tears, among the multitude, while the mother was scaling... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Women - 1853 - 332 pages
...paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into danger; and now the brushwood dwindled away into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on a little...above the stream, and forming part of the strath. . _ " There had been trouble and agitation, much sobbing, and many tears, among the multitude, while... | |
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