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" ... skysail, the apex of the pyramid, seeming actually to touch the stars, and to be out of reach of human hand. So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless.... "
The Story of Our Merchant Marine: Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged ... - Page 48
by Willis John Abbot - 1919 - 373 pages
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

American periodicals - 1840 - 560 pages
...not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvass; not even a quivering at the extreme edges of the sail — so perfectly were...breeze. I was so lost in the sight, that I forgot (he presence of the man who came out with me, until be said, (for he, too, rough old mun-of-war'B man...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvass; not even a quivering at the extreme edges of the sail — so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. 1 WHS so lost in the sight, that 1 forgut the presence of the man who came out with me, until he said,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

American periodicals - 1840 - 576 pages
...have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon t he surface of the canvass ; not even a quivering at the extreme edges of the sail — so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. 1 WHS eo lost in the fight, ttiat I forgut the presence of the man who came out with me, until he »nid,...
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The North American Review, Volume 52

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvass ; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail,...he said, (for he, too, rough old man-of-war's man as he was, had been gazing at the show,) half to himself, still looking at the marble sails, ' How...
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Sailors - 1840 - 540 pages
...sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvass ; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail...out with me, until he said, (for he, too, rough old man-of-war's-man as he was, had been gazing at the show,) half to himself, still looking at the marble...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvass ; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail...out with me, until he said, (for he, too, rough old man-of-war' s-man as he was, had been gazing at the show,) half to himself, still looking at the marble...
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McGuffey's Alternate First[-sixth] Reader, Book 5

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...these sails had been sculptured marble they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas; not even a quivering of...out with me, until he said (for he, too, rough old man-of-war's-man as he was had been gazing at the show), half to himself, still looking at the marble...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...these sails had been sculptured marble they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas ; not even a quivering of...out with me, until he said (for he, too, rough old man-of-war'sman as he was, had been gazing at the show), half to himself, still looking at the marble...
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Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana - 1890 - 494 pages
...these sails had been sculptured marble they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas ; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail, so perfectly were the}' distended by the breeze. I was so lost in the sight that I forgot the presence of the man who...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 544 pages
...could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas ; not even a quiver of the extreme edges of the sail, so perfectly were...out with me, until he said (for he, too, rough old man-ofwar's-man as he was, had been gazing at the show), half to himself, still looking at the marble...
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