 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - African Americans - 1856 - 346 pages
...splendor and boundless exuberance of growth, twine and interlace, and hang from the heights of tlie highest trees pennons of gold and purple, — triumphant...were to the persecuted Vaudois, this swampy belt has been to the American slave. The constant effort to recover from thence fugitives has led to the adoption,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1856 - 352 pages
...Climbing vines, and parasitic plants, of untold splendor and boundless exuberance of growth, twine and interlace, and hang from the heights of the highest trees pennons of gold and purple, — trinmphant banners, which attest the solitary majesty of nature. A species of parasitic moss wreaths... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - Authors - 1859 - 326 pages
...triumphant banners which attest the solitary majesty of nature. A species of parasitic moss wreathes its abundant draperies from tree to tree, and hangs...were to the persecuted Vaudois, this swampy belt has been to the American slave. The constant effort to recover from thence fugitives has led to the adoption,... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - Authors - 1859 - 378 pages
...Climbing vines, and parasitic plants, of untold splendour and boundless exuberance of growth, twine and interlace and hang from the heights of the highest...solitary majesty of nature. A species of parasitic moss wreathes its abundant draperies from tree to tree, and irnngs in pearly festoons, through which shine... | |
 | REV Nancy K Anderson, Acpe Supervisor, Nancy K. Anderson, Thomas Moran, Thomas P. Bruhn, Joni Kinsey, Anne Morand, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Seattle Art Museum - Art - 1997 - 412 pages
...Climbing vines, and parasitic plants, ot untold splendor and boundless exuberance of growth, twine and interlace, and hang from the heights of the highest...of gold and purple, — triumphant banners, which artest the solitary majesty of nature. A species of parasitic moss wreaths its abundant draperies from... | |
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... the deciduous children of the forest, form here dense jungles, verdant all the year round, and which afford shelter to numberless birds, with whose warbling the leafy desolation perpetually resounds. Climbing vines, and parasitic plants, of untold... 