 | Henry Edmund Carrington - Devonport (England) - 1843 - 364 pages
...Dartmoor. The author refrains from entering into a minute description of this enchanting scene, since it would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of so rare a landscape. Maker heights were fortified during the American war with five redoubts, which... | |
 | Quaker women - 1837 - 66 pages
...creature to give any one advice, I can only direct thee to die same Fountain, it is equally open to all." It would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the holy tranquillity which prevailed in her apartment. Death so completely robbed of its terrors,... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - New Jersey - 1855 - 352 pages
...A rage, whose heat hath this condition, That nothing can allay, nothing but blood. — Shakspeare. IT would be impossible to convey, in words, an adequate idea of the state of Aylesford's mind, after his separation from Major Gordon. Rage, shame and jealousy possessed... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1878 - 318 pages
...turn up again, but eventually I shall have him as an ally. A little girl of about four years of age ; it would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the debased, low, cunning beaming from her eyes. The little sinful soul overflowing the countenance;... | |
 | John Martin - 1878 - 314 pages
...turn up again, but eventually I shall have him as an ally. A little girl of about four years of age ; it would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the debased, low, cunning beaming from her eyes. The little sinful soul overflowing the countenance;... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1878 - 342 pages
...turn up again, but eventually I shall have him as an ally. A little girl of about four years of age ; it would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the debased, low, cunning beaming from her eyes. The little sinful soul overflowing the countenance;... | |
 | Eleanor Catherine Price - Christian biography - 1884 - 380 pages
...being an ally. Then there is " a strangely vivid picture of a little girl, of about four years of age ; it would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the debased, low cunning beaming from her eyes. The little sinful soul overflowing the countenance,... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1886 - 1090 pages
...the greater effect, " the rock about it was painted black, and the figure [Plate B] " itself colored with the most vivid red and white. It thus appeared...paintings as will serve as " a sort of description. " The dimensions of the figure were : — Ft. In. " Length of head and face 2 0 " Width of face 0 17... | |
 | Edward Micklethwaite Curr - Aboriginal Australians - 1887 - 738 pages
...of the most elaborate and artistic of the paintings discovered, Grey, vol. 1, p. 202, says : — " It would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of this uncouth and savage figure." On the whole, Grey's description does not lead me to assign much of art or antiquity to his paintings... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Australia - 1888 - 510 pages
...on any one who stood in the entrance of the cave, but it was totally invisible from the outside. " It would be impossible to convey in words an adequate...savage figure ; I shall, therefore, only give such a succint account of this and the other paintings as will serve as a sort of description. Its head was... | |
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I was certainly rather surprised at the moment that I first saw this gigantic head and upper part of a body bending over and staring grimly down at me. " It would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of this uncouth and savage figure. 
