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" ... flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable... "
The Domestic World: A Practical Guide in all the Daily Difficulties of the ... - Page 18
by Robert Kemp Philp - 1889 - 396 pages
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 926 pages
...force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable luiiliH n ;.>;;; with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight...
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 9

Bombay Geographical Society - Geography - 1850 - 502 pages
...buildings with the earth — to raise tho waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash thfi strongest ships to pieces like toys. It warms and...in itself or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and thrown them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their...
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EXPLANATIONS AND SAILING DIRECTIONS TO ACCOMPANY THE WIND AND CURRENT CHARTS

LIEUT N.F. MAURY, U.S.N. - 1851 - 344 pages
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, and stable buildings, with the Earth—to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains,...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 56

Science - 1854 - 410 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 56

Geology - 1854 - 530 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the оселп into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45

Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges tike mountains, and chish the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It warms...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as ruin or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea

Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 304 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains * Dr. Buist, of Bombay. them dissolved in itself, or suspended...
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Elements of Physical and Political Geography: Designed as a Text Book for ...

Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth, to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...and the living creatures that inhabit it It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds,...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea

Matthew Fontaine Maury - Gulf Stream - 1855 - 302 pages
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth—to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains,...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains * Dr. Buist, of Bombay. them dissolved in itself, or suspended...
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