The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 42Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1853 |
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... seemed to near me , and the vast plain to shrink . And so it did till it was no longer sky and plain , but a most fearful prison , whose walls I could almost reach by putting out my hand , and the air grew close and stifling ; and with ...
... seemed to near me , and the vast plain to shrink . And so it did till it was no longer sky and plain , but a most fearful prison , whose walls I could almost reach by putting out my hand , and the air grew close and stifling ; and with ...
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... seemed even to be shrinking as they spoke . Farmers came running in , crying out that as they ploughed in the fields , the earth seemed to stiffen and hard- grow was almost impervious to the plough . Sailors from the river swore that ...
... seemed even to be shrinking as they spoke . Farmers came running in , crying out that as they ploughed in the fields , the earth seemed to stiffen and hard- grow was almost impervious to the plough . Sailors from the river swore that ...
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... seemed to burn into my brain . I saw it all . In the omnipotence of GOD , the ' adequate pressure ' was being applied , and the world was doomed ; its beautiful fields , busy cities , restless oceans , and millions of men , all fated to ...
... seemed to burn into my brain . I saw it all . In the omnipotence of GOD , the ' adequate pressure ' was being applied , and the world was doomed ; its beautiful fields , busy cities , restless oceans , and millions of men , all fated to ...
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... seemed to increase in an accelerated ratio . The sun did not now rise majestically as usual , but shot quickly up in the east , hurried its flight across the heavens , and plunged into the west ; it was so with the planets and stars . I ...
... seemed to increase in an accelerated ratio . The sun did not now rise majestically as usual , but shot quickly up in the east , hurried its flight across the heavens , and plunged into the west ; it was so with the planets and stars . I ...
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... seemed no longer a globe , but a band of flame encircling the sky , and the stars slender threads of parallel light . The centrifugal form was evidently , in relation to myself , overcoming the centripetal ; my hold on the earth was ...
... seemed no longer a globe , but a band of flame encircling the sky , and the stars slender threads of parallel light . The centrifugal form was evidently , in relation to myself , overcoming the centripetal ; my hold on the earth was ...
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