 The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging : the laboring masts seem straining from their base : the dismal sound of the pumps is heard : the ship leaps, as it •were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing...  Pamphlets. American History - Page 541825Full view - About this book
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging; the labouring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the stag... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...waves. The aw55 ful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps...to billow ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulphing floods over the floating deck, 60 and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base;—the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ;—the ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow to billow;—the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulphing floods over the floating deck, 65 —poorly... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel. 1 see them, escaped from these perils, pursuing their all but desperate undertaking, and landed at... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps...deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel. " The design of the writer in this passage, is to excite emotion in the minds of his readers. He would... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging; the labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow ; the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats, with deadening, shivering weight, against the stag... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - English language - 1829 - 62 pages
...waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging ; the labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is...billow to billow; the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...pursuing a circuitous route ; — and now driven in fury before the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the storm howls through...— the ship leaps, as it were, madly from billow to biK low ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods •v«r the floating deck, and beats... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 420 pages
...storm howls through the rigging. The laboring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dis- . mal sound of the pumps is heard ; — the ship leaps,...to billow : — the ocean breaks, and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, 60 and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the... | |
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