 | Sarah Gilbert White Smith, Asa Bowen Smith, Clifford Merrill Drury - 1999 - 338 oldal
...of material in the diaries and letters of Asa and Sarah. Asa in his entry for this day wrote: "Often as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but the beautiful grass land, rising in gentle undulations." SS, 52. It is the author's opinion that Asa... | |
 | Albert L. Hurtado - 2006 - 450 oldal
...trees — some covered with small shrubs, but most of it seemed like a meadow covered with grass. Often as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but the beautiful grass land, rising in gentle undulations."13 Smith's smiling description of the plains... | |
 | 1844 - 472 oldal
...ceremony ; yet, as the forenoon wore away, and the appointed hour arrived, and still, on every side, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but the boundless prairie — I was compelled to relinquish the hope, and even think myself fortunate,... | |
 | 1881 - 120 oldal
...cuirassiers ! Here are the chasseurs of Lefebvre-Desnoettes ! Yonder is Lobau's corps I" On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but cuirasses, helmets, busbies, sabres, lances, and rows of bayonets. "What a battle I" cried Buche. "Woe... | |
 | 1849 - 726 oldal
...appearance more like arms of the sea, than that of a river two or three thousand miles inland. On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but vast expanses of water, divided from each other by belts of reeds, or flowering rushes, including occasionally... | |
 | 1888 - 486 oldal
...broke through the mists, disclosing the surrounding country, and dismal indeed was its appearance. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but a mass of grey rock, at times sinking into hollows, and then again showing in clearly defmed pinnacles.... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1854 - 552 oldal
...Mississippi. When they approached its mouth, they were struck with the gloomy magnificence of the sight. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots. They waved mournfully... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1829 - 616 oldal
...some to be Mount Horeb, which is the highest mountain in all the region around ; but from its summit, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen on every side but ranges of naked mountains succeeding each other like waves of the sea. Between these... | |
 | 1845 - 794 oldal
...not feel convinced of his worth, I will quote the words of Schlemihl himself. " I looked around, but as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen save the wide extending monotonous plain. No bush, no tree, not a stone on which to lay my weary head... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1850 - 572 oldal
...mansions, with their cultivated grounds, formed a pleasing contrast to the vast region beyond, where, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen except forest and jungle, among which glimpses of creek and river thone like embowered lakes. ' The... | |
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As we stood on its banks, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but water; no means of crossing was to be found. 
