 ... its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had...  The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 3091831Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1831 - 436 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...the red streaks of the flashing thunderbolt burst ou the dazzled eye, and, glancing along the huge trunk of the stateliest and noblest tree in my immediate... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber, Mrs. Charles Wilkins Webber - Birds - 1854 - 392 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...of the stateliest and noblest tree in my immediate neighborhood, were instantly followed by an uproar of cracking, crashing, and deafening sounds, rolling... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...little fire-, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the debtrnctive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...earth in one mass of fearful murkiness, save when tlle red streaks of the flashing thunderbolt burst on the dazzled eye, and. glancing along the huge... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful murkiness : — how often, after such a night, when, far from my dear home, and deprived of the presence of those... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually dicd away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful murkiness : — how often, after such a night, when, far from iny dear home, and deprived of the presence of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful murkiness : — how often, after such a night, when, far from my dear home, and deprived of the presence of those... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Biography - 1881 - 230 pages
...torrents of rain that seemed to involve tho heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful ranrkiness, save when the red streaks of the flashing thunderbolt...the huge trunk of the stateliest and noblest tree in the immediate neighborhood, were instantly followed by an uproar of crackling, crashing, nnd deafening... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...of the stateliest and noblest tree in my immediate neighborhood, were instantly followed by an uproar of crackling, crashing, and deafening sounds, rolling... | |
 | Thomas M'Caleb - American literature - 1894 - 634 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...of the stateliest and noblest tree in my immediate neighborhood, were instantly followed by an uproar of crackling, crashing, and deafening sounds, rolling... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve...of the stateliest and noblest tree in my immediate neighborhood, were instantly followed by an uproar of crackling, crashing, and deafening sounds, rolling... | |
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