 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou dis-< coverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it,...further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doers that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, than they fell... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. " But tell me further," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of people passing over...the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. " But tell me farther," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of people passing over...the great tide that flowed underneath it; and, upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...discoverest on it." " I see multitude* of people passing over it," said I, " and a black cloud han# ing on each end of it." As I looked more attentively,...passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide thai flowed underneath it ; and, upon farther examination, peiceived there were innumerable trap-doors... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...the ruinous condition 25 I now beheld it. " But tell me further," said he, " what thou discoverest on it?" " I see multitudes of people passing over...said I, " and a black cloud hanging on each end of it26." As I pourquol. — 20 Rises out of, sorl-il dc. — 2i Consummation, /in. — 22 Upon a more... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...OÍ people passing Over it/ »aid I, *and a black cloud hanging ou each end of it/ As I (poked mure ' The love of nature,' says Coleridge, 'seems to...led Thomson to a cheerful religion; and a gloomy beneath it; aud upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-iloors that lay concealed... | |
 | Tales - 1831 - 196 pages
...in the ruinous condition I now beheld it: ' But tell me further,' said he, ' what thou discoverest on it.' ' I see multitudes of people passing over...passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. " But tell me farther," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of people passing over...the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. " Rut tell me farther," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of people passing over...said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it " 8. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me farther, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it,...the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon farther examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which... | |
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But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into... 
