 | Cadwallader David Colden - Naval architects - 1817 - 406 pages
...wharf and gained her speed; his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause. The boat had not been long underway^ when Fulton ordered her engine to... | |
 | 1839 - 134 pages
...wharf and gained her speed : his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress the contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment, by a vulgar astonishment which... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...silenced for the moment by a vulgar astonishment, which deprived them of the power VOYAGE TO ALBANY. 489 of utterance, till the triumph of Genius extorted...and acclamations of congratulations and applause." Though her performance far exceeded the expectations of his friends, Fulton perceived that there was... | |
 | 1832 - 602 pages
...wharf and gained her speed : his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress the coniemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment, by a vulgar astonishment which... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...wharf, and gained her speed : his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder : the jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to repress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for the moment by a vulgar astonishment,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...the wharf and gained her speed, and his complacent expression gradually stiffened into one of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause. The boat had not been long under way, when Fulton ordered her engine to... | |
 | John Scott Russell - Locomotives - 1841 - 400 pages
...wharf, and gained her speed—his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause." The boat had not been long under way when Fulton ordered her engine to... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1841 - 542 pages
...wharf, and gained her speed ; his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor...which crowded the shores shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause.' The boat had not been long under way when Fulton ordered her engine to... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1841 - 538 pages
...wharf, and gained her speed ; his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder. The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor...which crowded the shores shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause.' The boat had not been long under way when Fulton ordered her engine to... | |
 | Children's literature - 1849 - 274 pages
...had neither sense nor feeling enough to repress their contemptuous ridicule, were silenced for the moment by a vulgar astonishment which deprived them of the power of utterance, till the triumph extorted, from the incredulous multitude which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation... | |
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The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment by a vulgar astonishment, which deprived them of the power of utterance, till the triumph of genius... 
