 | Edgar Lincoln Willard - 1921 - 220 pages
..."It was indeed an awful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the sea fowl and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings...magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature — a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice —toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 858 pages
...Arthur Wardour or his daughter to have found their way along these shelves without the guidance and encouragement of the beggar, who had been there before...magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature — a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...Arthur Wardour, or his daughter, to have found their way along these shelves without the guidance and $ y/ raging tide and an insurmountable precipice — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1998 - 516 pages
...guidance and encouragement of the beggar, who had been there before in high tides, though never, as he acknowledged, "in sae awsome a night as this."...the most magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature—a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice—toiled along their painful and dangerous path,... | |
 | Islay Burns - 1870 - 104 pages
...sparkling silver, that imperceptibly, yet rapidly, gained upon the sand. — Sir Walter Scott. (44.) It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature— a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 618 pages
...acknowledged, " in so awsome a night as this." ' It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of ihe storm mingled with the shrieks of the sea-fowl, and...magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature — a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often... | |
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It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the seafowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings who, pent between two of the most magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature, — a raging... 
