 | Naval battles - 1834 - 658 pages
...the SE We had so often seen fog-banks, which had the appearance of land, that I did not trust myself to believe it, and cautioned the people (who were...extravagantly elated,) that they might not feel the effects of disappointment : till at length one of them broke out into a most immoderate swearing fit of joy, which... | |
 | Naval battles - 1835 - 1128 pages
...often seen fog-banks which had the appearance of land, that I did not trust myself to believe i», and cautioned the people, (who were extravagantly elated,) that they might not feel the effects of disappointment ; till at length one of them broke out into a most immoderate swearing fit of joy, which... | |
 | Shipwrecks - 1836 - 454 pages
...south-east. We had seen fog-banks so often bearing the appearance of land, that I did not trust myself to believe it, and cautioned the people, who were...extravagantly elated, that they might not feel the effects of disappointment. At length one of them broke out into a most immoderate swearing fit of joy, which I... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875 - 942 pages
...the SE We had so often seen fog-banks, which had the appearance of land, that I did not trust myself to believe it, and cautioned the people (who were...extravagantly elated), that they might not feel the effects of disappointment; till at length one of them broke into a most immoderate swearing fit of joy, which... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Adventure and adventurers - 1905 - 426 pages
...the SE " We had so often seen fog-banks which had the appearance of land, that 1 did not trust myself to believe it, and cautioned the people (who were...extravagantly elated), that they might not feel the effects of disappointment; till at length one of them broke into a most immoderate swearing fit of joy, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1783 - 624 pages
...land in the S. E . We had feen fog-banks fo often, which had the appearance of land, that M 2 I did I did not truft myfelf to believe it, and cautioned...extravagantly elated) that they might not feel the effecb of difappointment ; 'till at length one of them broke out into a moft immoderate fwearing fit... | |
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... till at length one of them broke out into a most immoderate swearing fit of joy, which I could not restrain, and declared he had never seen land in his life if what he now saw was not land. 
