 | John McIntosh - Indians - 1843 - 332 pages
...have been newly cut, and likewise a piece of timber artificially carved. The sailors aboard the Nigna took up the branch of a tree with red berries perfectly...the wind became unequal and variable. From all these symptons, Columbus was so confident of being near land, that on the evening of the eleventh of October,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...have been newly cut, and likewise a piece of timber artificially carved. The sailors aboard the Nigua hand so brown.' Fear not, fear not, thou wedding-gueat,...all, all alone, Alouc on a wide wide sea ! And nev wann, and during night the wind became unequal and variable. From all these symptoms Columbus was so... | |
 | 1844 - 206 pages
...observed a cane floating on the water, which appeared to have been newly cut, Others of the sailors took up the branch of a tree, with red berries, perfectly fresh. The last day of the promised three was nearly expired, when Columbus, standing on the forecastle of the... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 pages
...selected the more striking, closing with this picturesque passage : — " The sailors aboard the Nina took up the branch of a tree with red berries, perfectly...appearance ; the air was more mild and warm, and during the night the wind becam e unequal and variable." When we are thus in painful suspense, comes the crowning... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Authors, English - 1845 - 358 pages
...selected the more striking, closing with this picturesque passage : — " The sailors aboard the Nina took up the branch of a tree with red berries, perfectly...appearance; the air was more mild and warm, and during the night the wind became unequal and variable." When we are thus in painful suspense, comes the crowning... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...closing with this picturesque passage : — " The sailors aboard the Nina took up the branch of :i tree with red berries, perfectly fresh. The clouds...appearance ; the air was more mild and warm, and during the night the wind became unequal and variable." When we are thus in painful suspense, comes the crowning... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...have been newly nit, and likewise a piece of timber artificially carved. The sailors aboard the Nina took up the branch of a tree with red berries, perfectly...setting sun assumed a new appearance ; the air was milder and warmer ; and during night the wind became unequal and variable. From all these symptoms,... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...selected the more striking, closing with this picturesque passage : — " The sailors aboard the Nina took up the branch of a tree with red berries perfectly...appearance ; the air was more mild and warm, and during the night the wind became unequal and variable About two hours before midnight Columbus, standing on... | |
 | Eliza SLATER - 1854 - 268 pages
...which seemed to have been newly cut, and, likewise, a piece of timber artificially carved ; they also took up the branch of a tree, with red berries, perfectly...mild and warm, and, during night, the wind became variable. From all these symptoms, Columbus was so confident of being near land, that, on the 10th... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...selected the more striking, closing with this picturesque passage : — " The sailors aboard the Nina took up the branch of a tree with red berries, perfectly...appearance ; the air was more mild and warm, and during the night the wind became unequal and variable.0 When we are thus in painful suspense, comes the crowning... | |
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Nigna took up the branch of a tree with red berries perfectly fresh. The clouds around the setting sun assumed a new appearance ; the air was more mild and warm, and during the night the wind became unequal and variable. 
