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... coloured glory . ' Yesterday I travelled from Paris , and the day pre- vious from London , when the trail of a spent storm swept across the sea and kept its anger awake . The stern of our boat went up and down , the distant craft were ...
... coloured glory . ' Yesterday I travelled from Paris , and the day pre- vious from London , when the trail of a spent storm swept across the sea and kept its anger awake . The stern of our boat went up and down , the distant craft were ...
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... from them into the distant air . They are without colour of any kind ; but their grace of form and lustre are not to be described . NOTE ON CLOUDS . Ir is well known that when 1861 ] THE GRIMSEL AND THE EGGISCHHORN . 81.
... from them into the distant air . They are without colour of any kind ; but their grace of form and lustre are not to be described . NOTE ON CLOUDS . Ir is well known that when 1861 ] THE GRIMSEL AND THE EGGISCHHORN . 81.
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... colours are best seen by looking along the experimental tube from a point above it , the face being turned towards the source of illumination . The differential motions introduced by friction against the interior surface of the tube ...
... colours are best seen by looking along the experimental tube from a point above it , the face being turned towards the source of illumination . The differential motions introduced by friction against the interior surface of the tube ...
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... colour , which apparently surrounds the petals like a layer , and defeats by its lustre any at- tempt of the eye to seize upon the sharp outline of the leaves . A similar effect was here observed upon the mountains ; the glory did not ...
... colour , which apparently surrounds the petals like a layer , and defeats by its lustre any at- tempt of the eye to seize upon the sharp outline of the leaves . A similar effect was here observed upon the mountains ; the glory did not ...
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... colour vanished more and more ; the stars strengthened in lustre , until finally the moon and they held undis- puted possession of the sky . My face was turned towards the moon until it became so chilled that I was forced to protect it ...
... colour vanished more and more ; the stars strengthened in lustre , until finally the moon and they held undis- puted possession of the sky . My face was turned towards the moon until it became so chilled that I was forced to protect it ...
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