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" ... sea-plain, letting our boat follow the wind for five hundred days. Then, about the hour of the dragon, four hours ere noon, saw we a high hill looming faintly over the watery waste. Long we gazed at it, and marvelled at the majesty of the mountain... "
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Page 13
by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1887
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 19

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1887 - 872 pages
...many diseases fell we prey as we drifted along knowing not whitherwards, and so tossed we over ihe sea-plain, letting our boat follow the wind for five...call men this mountain ? ' and she said, ' 'Tis Mount Horai,' whereat our hearts were filled with joy. ' And you, who tell us this, who then are you,' we...
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竹取物語

Frederick Victor Dickins - Japanese literature - 1888 - 154 pages
...Long we gazed at it, and marvelled at the majesty of the mountain rising out of the sea. 4 Lofty it ' and fair of form, and doubting not it was the mountain...accosted her, saying : ' How call men this mountain P ' and she said, ' 'Tis Mount Ilorai," whereat our hearts were filled with joy. ' And you, who tell...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...ere noon, saw we a high hill looming faintly over the watery waste. Long we gazed at it, and marveled at the majesty of the mountain rising out of the sea....call men this mountain ? ' and she said, ' Tis Mount Horai;' whereat our hearts were filled with joy.n COURT FESTIVALS IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY [From the...
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Japanese Literature

Clay MacCauley - Japanese literature - 1898 - 40 pages
...was and fair of form, and doubting not it was the mountain we were seeking, our hearts were rilled with awe. We plied the oar and coasted it for two...saying, " How call men this mountain?" and she said, "'Fis Mount Horai;" whereat our hearts were fillei with joy. Тнн MAID OF UNAI. [From the " Yamalo...
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Translated Into English, with ...

English literature - 1906 - 624 pages
...angel, come forth out of the hills, bearing a silver vessel, which she filled with water at a fount. So we landed and accosted her, saying : " How call men this mountain ? " and she said, " 'Tis Mount H6rai," whereat our hearts were filled with joy. " And you who tell us this, who then are you? " we...
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Translated Into English, with ...

English literature - 1906 - 582 pages
...angel, come forth out of the hills, bearing a silver vessel, which she filled with water at a fount. So we landed and accosted her, saying : " How call men this mountain 1 " and she said, " 'Tia Mount Hdrai," whereat our hearts were filled with joy. " And you who tell...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, Volume 7

Japan Society of London - Japan - 1908 - 590 pages
...angel, come forth out of the hills, bearing a silver vessel, which she filled with water at a fount. So we landed and accosted her, saying : " How call men this mountain ? " and she said, " Tis Mount Horai," whereat our hearts were filled with joy. " And you who tell us this, who then are you ? " we...
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Great Short Novels of the World: A Collection of Complete Tales Chosen from ...

Barrett Harper Clark - Fiction - 1927 - 1328 pages
...could over the sea-plain, and perchance thus might we somehow reach the mountain men do call Horai. So resolved we sculled further and further over the...call men this mountain?' and she said, ' 'Tis Mount Horai,' whereat our hearts were filled with joy. 'And you, who tell us this, who then are you?' we...
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