They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient... The life and voyages of Christopher COlumbus - Seite 41von Washington Irving - 1882Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1828 - 722 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first discovered by a mariner named Rodrigo de Triana ; but the reward... | |
| Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first discovered by a mariner named Rodrigo de Triana; hut the reward... | |
| 1828 - 438 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first discovered by a mariner named Rodrigo de Triana ; but the reward... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the baad of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Coluintnu, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited.... | |
| 1828 - 638 Seiten
...moving along a shore, and concluded that he was approaching an inhabited coast. " They continued along their course until two in the morning, when a gun from the Pintn gave the joyful sigi al of land. It was first descried by a mariner named Rodrigo de Trianra;... | |
| 1829 - 762 Seiten
...waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that...inhabited. " They continued their course until two До the morning, when a gun from the Finta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first discovered... | |
| 1830 - 428 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...however, considered them as certain signs of land, •nd, moreover, that the land was inhabited. ".They continued on their course until two in the morning,... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a mariner named Rodrigo de Triana; but the reward was... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 600 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and...in the morning when a gun from the Pinta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a mariner, named Roderigo de Friana ; but the reward... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 366 Seiten
...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on snore, borne up and down ns he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain...in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a mariner, named Roderigo de Friana; but the reward... | |
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