| Harriet Martineau - 1855 - 320 páginas
...would be attended with perils : the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect, we were reduced...tumbling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, — both of immense depth. Sometimes we thought it prudent to return ; but that... | |
| 1856 - 586 páginas
...would be attended with perils ; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect we were reduced...tumbling into the Tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, — both of immense depth. Sometimes we thought it prudent to return; but that... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1857 - 132 páginas
...would be attended with perils ; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect, we were reduced...tumbling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, — both of immense depth. Sometimes we thought it prudent to return ; but that... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1858 - 236 páginas
...would be attended with perils ; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect, we were reduced...tumbling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, — both of immense depth. Sometimes we thought it prudent to return ; but that... | |
| John Pagen White - 1873 - 368 páginas
...would be attended with perils ; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect, we were reduced...either of bestriding the ridge or of moving on one ot its sides, with our hands lying over the top, as a security against tumbling into the tarn on the... | |
| Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1875 - 522 páginas
...would be attended with perils; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect, we were reduced...our hands lying over the top, as a security against falling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, both of immense depth. Sometimes... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1876 - 460 páginas
...would be attended with perils ; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect, we were reduced...our hands lying over the top, as a security against falling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, — both of immense depth.... | |
| Louis Compton Miall - 1896 - 314 páginas
...imaginations of that generation ! Green and Otley, in their ascent of Sharp Edge, found themselves " reduced to the necessity either of bestriding the...our hands lying over the top, as a security against falling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful gully on the right, both of immense depth."... | |
| 1926 - 1070 páginas
...the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous. From walking erect we were reduced to the necesssity either of bestriding the ridge or of moving on one of its sides with our hands_ lying over the top, as a security against tumbling into the tarn on the left, or into a frightful... | |
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