 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - Страниц: 344
...observation. In calm weather, the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom ; and unless for the...gale increases, the tall mast-like cedars wave like fishing poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular noises, that, with the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - Страниц: 384
...observation. In calm weather, the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom ; and unless for the...rises, at first it sighs mournfully through the tops f but as the gale increases, the tall mast-like cedars wave like fishing poles, and rubbing against... | |
 | 1840 - Страниц: 494
...observation. In calm weather, the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions ; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom ; and unless for the...the herons and the melancholy chirping of one or two small birds, ell is silence, solitude, and desolation. When a breeze rises, at first it sighs mournfully... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 624
...observation. In calm weather, the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom ; and unless for the...the herons and the melancholy chirping of one or two small birds, all is silence, solitude, and desolation. When a breeze rises, at first it sighs mournfully... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - Страниц: 720
...regions ; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom : 288 281) THE EUROPEAN NIGHT HERON. and unless for the occasional hollow screams of the...through the tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall, mast- like cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - Страниц: 758
...dreary regions ; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom : THE El BOPEAX NIGHT HERON. and unless for the occasional hollow screams of the...the tall, mast-like cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular noises, that, with the help of a little... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 1242
...observation. In calm weather the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom; and unless for the occasional hollow screams of the lierons, and the melancholy chirping of one or two species of small birds, all is silence, solitude... | |
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... which the green moss concealed from observation. In calm weather, the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom ; and unless for the occasional hollow screams of the herons, and the melancholy... 