Australia and HomewardW. Briggs, 1888 - 336 páginas |
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Página 102
... leaving us to admire his shining black waterproof gossamer . These animals , as also some others of the great bat tribe , are a perfect pest to growers of fruit . Nocturnal in their habits , they come down on the trees while men sleep ...
... leaving us to admire his shining black waterproof gossamer . These animals , as also some others of the great bat tribe , are a perfect pest to growers of fruit . Nocturnal in their habits , they come down on the trees while men sleep ...
Página 147
... leaving his poor bones to be picked by the vultures , and bleached by the unpitying sun ? These were questions which awaited their answer- ing . Who will venture to tell us all about this great unknown ? A Mr. Kyte had offered £ 1,000 ...
... leaving his poor bones to be picked by the vultures , and bleached by the unpitying sun ? These were questions which awaited their answer- ing . Who will venture to tell us all about this great unknown ? A Mr. Kyte had offered £ 1,000 ...
Página 148
... Leaving a sufficient number in charge of the stores , the leaders started with one or two others on their perilous and trying journey . The distance to be traversed was much greater , and required much more time , than had been ...
... Leaving a sufficient number in charge of the stores , the leaders started with one or two others on their perilous and trying journey . The distance to be traversed was much greater , and required much more time , than had been ...
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... leaving tracks like plough furrows in the wet , black soil . We duly reached Marlborough township , sixty miles from Rockhampton , the weather being still very un- settled , and we feared floods in the next river which ran between us ...
... leaving tracks like plough furrows in the wet , black soil . We duly reached Marlborough township , sixty miles from Rockhampton , the weather being still very un- settled , and we feared floods in the next river which ran between us ...
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... leaving a perpendicular wall some forty feet high . A glance into this whirlpool convinced me that to enter it would be certain death , and the only escape lay in slightly stemming the tide , and landing higher up . This caused much ...
... leaving a perpendicular wall some forty feet high . A glance into this whirlpool convinced me that to enter it would be certain death , and the only escape lay in slightly stemming the tide , and landing higher up . This caused much ...
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Página 235 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 223 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain...
Página 219 - Twere all as well to bid a cloud to stand, Or hold a running river with the hand. But thou that art to save, thine hour is nigh! The sad world waiteth in its misery, The blind world stumbleth on its round of pain; Rise, Maya's child! wake! slumber not again!
Página 282 - The great soul of Dante, homeless on earth, made its home more and more in that awful other world.
Página 287 - THE mountains of this glorious land Are conscious beings to mine eye, When at the break of day they stand Like giants, looking through the sky, To hail the sun's unrisen car, That gilds their diadems of snow ; While one by one, as star by star, Their peaks in ether glow.
Página 219 - Maya's son ! because we roam the earth Moan we upon these strings ; we make no mirth, So many woes we see in many lands'; So many streaming eyes and wringing hands.
Página 219 - We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Página 173 - Soft as the dew from heaven descends His gentle accents fell : The modest stranger lowly bends, And follows to the cell. Far in a wilderness obscure The lonely mansion lay, A refuge to the neighbouring poor, And strangers led astray.
Página 12 - Roughly speaking, the territory comprised within it is about 2,500 miles from east to west and 2,000 miles from north to south, with an approximate area of 1,800,000 sq.
Página 255 - Cfesar and his household, as well as to suffer the loss of all things that he might win Christ. We had a pleasant day's sail along the coast of Greece, sheltered from the north-east wind by Lively and picturesque islands, on some of which were charming residences, hamlets and towns. We sailed into Brindisi on the morning of the 3rd of February. This old town was more nourishing in the days of the emperors than now.