 | Balduin Möllhausen - 1858 - 404 oldal
...for they had long vanished from our sight. We had to make up our minds to a rather late rest, since, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen of the Expedition; and we had to look for it behind the blue mountains in the distance. How far it... | |
 | Frank Fowler - 1859 - 156 oldal
...Towards evening, as the sun lay smouldering on the horizon, we passed along the edge of a valley of gums. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but the white trunks and the sombre foliage of the trees ; and they lay such a depth beneath the road along... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1860 - 358 oldal
...across me, when — on the horses stopping to breathe on the summit of a lofty ridge, where all around, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but the same unvarying, miserable, heartsinking barrenness, without a trace of human habitation, except... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - 588 oldal
...the road, so as to be within the shade of the trees, for the sun was high, and the heat overpowering. As far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen on the immense plain of Alsace but waving fields of rye, wheat, and oats ; the hot air was laden with... | |
 | John William Colenso - 1864 - 388 oldal
...relative that the water was high upon the ramparts of Bagdad, and six feet above the level of the city. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen, from the highest tower of the Mosques, but a great waste of waters, studded here and there with a few... | |
 | 1862 - 542 oldal
...leisurely pace, through the delightful pastoral country which lies between the railway and the coast. As far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen to mar the peace and harmony of the scene. The hedge-rows were white witb the blossoms of the hawthorn... | |
 | Horace William Wheelwright - 1864 - 484 oldal
...had reached the highest peak of the fells we stood, perhaps, 5,000 feet above the level of Quickiock. Far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but a wide expanse of fells of different shapes and sizes shelving out on all sides, the snow-fells towering... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 oldal
...calculated to make those most in love with great guns either laugh or sing. On the side of the French, also, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but artillery taking up its position, cuirasses, helmets, lances, swords, and interminable lines of bayonets."... | |
 | John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1865 - 474 oldal
...relative that the water was high upon the ramparts of Bagdad, and six feet above the level of the city. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen, from the highest tower of the Mosques, but a great waste of waters, studded here and there with a few... | |
 | John Carey Cremony - 1868 - 334 oldal
...of white sand. With much toil several of our number ascended one or two of the highest hillocks, but as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but one unbroken expanse of sand— white, dazzling under the rays of a burning sun, unrelieved by a single... | |
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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. 
