 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1787 - 510 pages
...parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have refolutiou to walk to them, and look over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have refolution to walk to them and look over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme.... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...the sides uf this bridge arc-, provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it; but if the view from the top be ¡minrui and intolerable, that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet- few men have reBolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You...and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Look ing down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ach. If the view fe^Si the top... | |
 | Books - 1811 - 576 pages
...some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look oyer into the abyss, You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this heiglit about a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the view... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...the sides of this Bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down front this height about a minute gave me a violent... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men...and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall upon your hands and feet, creep to fhe parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from, this height about... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...is many times longer than the " transverse. Though the sides of this bridge " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet " of fixed rocks, yet few men have the re" solution to walk to them, and look over " into the abyss. You involuntarily fall " upon your hands... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1822 - 466 pages
...the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily full on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You voluntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height... | |
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Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, c*eep to the parapet, and peep over it. 
