 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 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...setting sun assumed a new appearance ; the air was mure mild and warm, and during night the wind became unequal and variable. From all these symptoms... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 pages
...have been newly cut, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - English language - 1874 - 166 pages
...Semicolon. EXERCISE LXVII. Point the following sentences, and give a reason for each point you insert:— 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. The arts of deceit continually grow weaker whereas... | |
 | Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 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...variable. .From all these symptoms, Columbus was so confluent of being near land, that, on the evening of the llth of October, after public prayers for... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...newly cut, and likewise a piece of timber artificially carved. The sailors aboard the Nina took up tin branch of a tree with red berries perfectly fresh. The clouds around the setting sun assumed a new appear, ance; the air was more mild and warm, and duriiij; night the wind became unequal and variable.... | |
 | 1875 - 852 pages
...to the maxims which these faculties have suggested to him. DRIFTWOOD. "The Bailors aboard the Nigna took up the branch of a tree with red berries, perfectly fresh." — Ditcovery of the Nevi World by Columbus. LONG ripples on white eand of whiter foam, From low waves... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...EXERCISE CLXVIII. Point the following sentences, and give a reason for each point you insert : — 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. The arts of deceit continually grow weaker whereas... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - Naval history - 1878 - 528 pages
...and a piece of carved wood floating by their vessel ; and on board the " Nina," the sailors picked up the branch of a tree with red berries, perfectly fresh ; the clouds round the setting sun assumed a new appearance ; the air was more mild and warm ; and during the night,... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1881 - 368 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 11 symptoms, Columbus was so confident of being near land, that on the evening of the llth of October,... | |
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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. 
