 Each moment, the eastern puffs of air lost their strength, becoming more and more feeble, until, in an incredibly short period, the heavy sails were heard flapping against the masts. A frightful and ominous calm succeeded.  The Red Rover: A Tale - Page 259by James Fenimore Cooper - 1843Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...shedding their own prpuliar and lucid atmosphere around them. The br, em, which had been so fresh, $nd which had even blown, at times, with a force that...power that was gathering along the borders of the bea in the direction of the neighboring continent. Each- moment the eastern puffs of air lost their... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...brightness, or shedding their own pecuH;tr and lucid atmosphere around them. The breeze which had been so fresh, and which had even blown, at times, with a...a little gale, was lulling and becoming uncertain, äs though awed by the more violent power that was gathering along the borders of the sea, in the direction... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 570 pages
...brightness, or shedding their own peculiar and lucid atmosphere around them. The breeze which had been so fresh, and which had even blown, at times, with a...nearly amounted to a little gale, was lulling and bei-.oming uncertain, as though awed by the more violent power that was gathering along the borders... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...brightness, or shedding their own peculiar nnd lucid aN mospbere around them. The breeze, which had been so fresh, and which had even blown, at times, with a...gathering along the borders of the sea in the direction of tha neighbouring continent. Each moment tha eastern pnffi of air lost their strength, and became more... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...brightness, or shedding their own peculiar nnd lucid aN mospbere around them. The breeze, which had been so fresh, and which had even blown, at times, with a...gathering along the borders of the sea in the direction of tha neighbouring continent. Each moment tha eastern pnffi of air lost their strength, and became more... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1856 - 602 pages
...brightness, or shedding their own peculiar and lucid atmosphere around them. The breeze, which had been so fresh, and which had even blown, at times, with a...uncertain, as though awed by the more violent power that wag gathering along the borders of the sea in the di1856.] GERMAN WIT: HEINRICH HEINE. rection of the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 540 pages
...blown with a force that nearly amounted to a gale, was lulling and becoming uncertain, as it might be awed by the more violent power that was gathering...moment, the eastern puffs of air lost their strength, becoming more and more feeble, until, in an incredibly short period, the heavy sails were heard flapping... | |
 | Joseph Lewis French - Fiction - 1921 - 364 pages
...blown with a force that nearly amounted to a gale, was lulling and becoming uncertain, as it might be awed by the more violent power that was gathering...moment, the eastern puffs of air lost their strength, becoming more and more feeble, until, in an incredibly short period, the heavy sails were heard flapping... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...blown with a force that nearly amounted to a gale, was lulling and becoming uncertain, as it might be awed by the more violent power that was gathering...along the borders of the sea, in the direction of the neighboring Continent. Each moment the eastern puffs of air lost their strength, becoming more and... | |
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