 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 620 pages
...sweeping toward us nearer and nearer — growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined — nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1874 - 326 pages
...moves. Well, I should think so ! In a second or two it becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling, rising and falling — sweeping toward us nearer and...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm !... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - Canada - 1875 - 360 pages
...becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling, rising and falling — sweeping toward us nearerand nearer, — growing more and more distinct, more and...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm... | |
 | Englishman - 1876 - 268 pages
...toward us nearer and nearer, — growing more and more distinct. more and more sharply defined,nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1878 - 346 pages
...sweeping toward us nearer and nearer, — growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined, nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man aud horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm !... | |
 | Englishman - 1880 - 332 pages
...sweeping toward us nearer and nearer, — growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined, nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm !... | |
 | Alexander Lovett Stimson - Express service - 1881 - 444 pages
...sweeping toward us nearer and nearer — growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined — nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like the belated fragment of a storm."... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...moves. Well, I should think so ! In a second or two it becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling, rising and falling — sweeping toward us nearer and...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1884 - 486 pages
...growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined, nearer and still nearer, and the nutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear. Another instant...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm... | |
 | Lady Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent - Voyages around the world - 1886 - 470 pages
...falling—sweeping towards us nearer and nearer—growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined, nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs...deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm!... | |
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... nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear — another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away... 
