| Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 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...mild and warm, and, during night, the wind became unequal1 and variable. From all these symptoms, Columbus was so confident of being near land, that... | |
| Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...have been newly cut, aud 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 milder and Avarmer, and during night the wind became variable. 8. From all these symptoms,1' Columbus... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...hav^ been newly cut. and likewise a piece of timber artificially carved. The sailors aboard the XiyrM took up the branch of a tree- with red berries perfectly...fresh. The clouds around the setting sun assumed a now appearance ; tho air was more mild and warm, and during night the wind became unequal Hiicl varia~... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 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 symptoms1', Columbus was so confident of being near laud, that on the evening of the llth of October,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 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 fresh. 6. The clouds around the setting sun assumed a new appearance ; the air was more mild and warm, and... | |
| Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1893 - 460 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,... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 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...and variable. From all these symptoms, Columbus was BO confident of being near land that on the evening of the llth of October, after public prayers for... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 658 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 fresh. The clouds around the settinsr sun assumed a new appearance; the air was more mild and warm and, during night, the wind became... | |
| Frederick Henry Sykes - English language - 1905 - 354 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...variable. From all these symptoms, Columbus was so conf1dent of being near land, that on the evening of the nth of October, after public prayers for success,... | |
| Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - Readers - 1910 - 310 pages
...piece of timber artificially carved. The sailors aboard the Nina 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 milder and warmer, and during night the wind became variable. 8. From all these symptoms, Columbus... | |
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