 | Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley - America - 1851 - 332 pages
...Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a dream of enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer coming sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with these...lights, casting long brilliant reflections on the fast-rolling waters beneath ; — (there is often a number of them, one after the other — like so... | |
 | Emmeline Stuart Wortley - America - 1851 - 492 pages
...Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a dream of enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer coming sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with these...lights, casting long brilliant reflections on the fast-rolling waters beneath ; (there is often a number of them, one after the other — like so many... | |
 | Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley - America - 1851 - 492 pages
...Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a dream of enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer coming sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with these...lights, casting long brilliant reflections on the fast-rolling waters beneath ; (there is often a number of them, one after the other — like so many... | |
 | 1855 - 440 pages
...Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a dream of enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer coming sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with these thousands of lights, casting long brilliant 48 BAPTISMS. reflections on the fast rolling waters beneath. There is often a number of them, one after... | |
 | Grace Elizabeth King - New Orleans (La.) - 1895 - 440 pages
...enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer coming, sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with thousands of lights, casting long brilliant reflections...beneath. (There are often a number of them, one after another, like so many comets in Indian file.) Some of them are so marvellously and dazzlingly lighted,... | |
 | Grace Elizabeth King - New Orleans (La.) - 1895 - 444 pages
...enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer coming, sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with thousands of lights, casting long brilliant reflections...beneath. (There are often a number of them, one after another, like so many comets in Indian file.) Some of them are so marvellously and dazzlingly lighted,... | |
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... of steamers, that frequently look like moving mountains of light and flame, so brilliantly are these enormous river-leviathans illuminated, outside and inside. Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a dream of enchantment. Imagine steamer after steamer... 