| 1865 - 1040 páginas
...cover, tbn the wind rushed over us with a dull, tattering sound, leaving us, in its passage, eorered with a crust of sand two fingers thick, The first particles that touched n« seemed to burn like a rain of flakes of in. Had we encountered it when we •ere six miles deeper... | |
| English cyclopaedia - 1869 - 710 páginas
...to bury their heads in the sand. We entrenched ourselves behind them, lying there as behind a wall, and scarcely had we in our turn knelt under their...thick. The first particles that touched me seemed to bum like a rain of flakes of fire." The danger, however, was now passed, and in a few days they reached... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1865 - 838 páginas
...knelt under their cover, than the wind rushed over us with a dull, clattering sound, leaving m. in it» passage, covered with a crust of sand two fingers...air became heavier and more oppressive than before." The gallows may be, as a certain Englishman supposed, a sure sign of civilization, but the custom-house... | |
| 1865 - 828 páginas
...wind rushed over us with a dull, clattering sound, leaving us. in its passage, covered with a crust*of sand two fingers thick. The first particles that touched...the disposition to fever and vomiting caused by the j wind itself, but the air became heavier and more oppressive than before." The gallows may be, as... | |
| William Hughes - 1868 - 346 páginas
...to bury their heads in the sand. We entrenched ourselves behind them, lying there as behind a wall; and scarcely had we, in our turn, knelt under their...flakes of fire. Had we encountered it when we were deeper in the desert, we should all have perished. I had not time to make observations upon the disposition... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 320 páginas
...Sand Storm in the Desert cover, than the wind rushed over us with a dull, clattering sound, leaving us covered with a crust of sand two fingers thick. The...deeper in the desert, we should all have perished. 12. We pushed on towards Bokhara, and in the evening came to fountains which, though undrinkable by... | |
| Heroic adventure - 1883 - 332 páginas
...behind them, lying there as behind a wall ; and scarcely had we in our turn knelt under their cover when the wind rushed over us with a dull, clattering sound,...air became heavier and more oppressive than before." Towards evening they reached some fountains, the water of which, however, was only drinkable by the... | |
| Heroic adventure - 1883 - 320 páginas
...behind them, lying there as behind a wall; and scarcely had we in our turn knelt under their cover when the wind rushed over us with a dull, clattering sound,...disposition to fever and vomiting caused by the wind itself, hut the air became heavier and more oppressive than before." Towards evening they reached some fountains,... | |
| W G. Baker - 1884 - 334 páginas
...Sand Storm in the Desert cover, than the wind rushed over us with a dull, clattering sound, leaving us covered with a crust of sand two fingers thick. The...deeper in the desert, we should all have perished. 12. We pushed on towards Bokhara, and in the evening came to fountains which, though undrinkable by... | |
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