 ... overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river bright with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind sweeps down a side gulch, and, making a rift in the clouds, reveals the blue heavens, and a stream of sunlight pours in. Then the clouds...  The United States - Page 75by Henry Gannett - 1898 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Smithsonian Institution - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1875 - 466 pages
...lost, so a pair from the "Emma Dean" is spared. Then for two miles we find smooth water. cloud roof overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river...stream of sunlight pours in. Then, the clouds drift away into the distance, and hang around crags, and peaks, and pinnacles, and towers, and walls, and... | |
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...impending storm ; and we can peer long distances up and down this canon corridor, with its 86 cloud roof overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river...stream of sunlight pours in. Then, the clouds drift away into the distance, and hang around crags, and peaks, and pinnacles, and towers, and walls, and... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 604 pages
...caflon with a roof of impending storm ; and we can peer long distances up and down this cafion-corridor, with its cloud-roof overhead, its walls of black granite,...of broken waters. Then a gust of wind sweeps down a sidegulch, and, making a rift in the clouds, reveals the blue heavens, and a stream of sunlight pours... | |
 | United States - 1882 - 640 pages
...they hung above from wall to wall, covering the canon with a roof of impending storm, and we could peer long distances up and down this canon corridor...with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind would sweep down the side-gulch and make a rift in the clouds, revealing the blue heavens, and a stream... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - Canada - 1883 - 710 pages
...closed in, so that we can see but a few hundred yards, and what there may be below we know not ; hut we listen for falls, and watch for rocks, or stop...stream of sunlight pours in. Then the clouds drift away into distance, and hang around crags and peaks, and pinnacles and towers and walls, and cover... | |
 | Friedrich von Hellwald - Canada - 1883 - 756 pages
...playing in the canon to-day. Sometimes they roll down in great masses, filling the gorge with ,'loom; sometimes they hang above, from wall to wall, and...stream of sunlight pours in. Then the clouds drift away into distance, and hang around crags and peaks, and pinnacles and towers and walls, and cover... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - Canada - 1883 - 758 pages
...in great masses, filling the gorge with ;.'liiom; sometimes they hang above, from wall to -wall, und cover the canon with a roof of impending storm .;...stream of sunlight pours in. Then the clouds drift away into distance, and hang around crags and peaks, and pinnacles and towers and walls, and cover... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...impending storm, and we could peer long distances up and down this canon corridor, with its cloud roof overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river...with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind would sweep down a side gulch and make a rift in the clouds, revealing the blue heavens, and a stream... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...impending storm, and we could peer long distances up and down this canon corridor, with its cloud roof overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river...with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind would sweep down a side gulch and make a rift in the clouds, revealing the blue heavens, and a stream... | |
 | Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 pages
...impending storm, and we could peer long distances up and down this canon corridor, with its cloud roof overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river...with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind would sweep down a side gulch and make a rift in the clouds, revealing the blue heavens, and a stream... | |
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