 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation' or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules and...sublimity, felt a slight shudder of apprehension. Our mules seemed to sympathize with us in the pervading sentiment, and moved forward with reluctance,... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules and...sublimity, felt a slight shudder of apprehension. Our mules seemed to sympathize with us in the pervading sentiment, and moved forward with reluctance,... | |
 | 1848 - 704 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation, or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules, and moisten our mouths and throats, from the short supply of beverage in our powder keg, we entered upon this appalling field of sullen and hoary... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - Fiction - 1849 - 500 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules,...sublimity, felt a slight shudder of apprehension. Our mules seemed to sympathize with us in the pervading sentiment, and moved forward with reluctance,... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - California - 1849 - 492 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules,...sublimity, felt a slight shudder of apprehension. Our mules seemed to sympathize with us in the pervading sentiment, and moved forward with reluctance,... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - California - 1849 - 494 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules,...mouths and throats from the scant supply of beverage in OUT powder-keg, we entered upon this appalling field of sullen and hoary desolation. It was a scene... | |
 | Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 592 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation, or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules,...sublimity, felt a slight shudder of apprehension. Our mules seemed to sympathize with us in the pervading sentiment, and moved forward with reluctance,... | |
 | Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 598 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation, or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules,...appalling field of sullen and hoary desolation. It was a sceno so entirely new to us, so frightfully forbidding and unearthly in its aspects, that all of us,... | |
 | 1850 - 492 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation, or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few «moments to rest our mules,...in our powder-keg, we entered upon this appalling scene of sullen and hoary desolation. It was a scene so entirely new to us, so frightfully forbidding,... | |
 | 1848 - 708 pages
...utterly destitute of vegetation or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules and...entered upon this appalling field of sullen and hoary deflation. It was a scene so entirely new to us, so frightfully forbidding and unearthly in its aspects,... | |
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About eleven o'clock we struck a vast white plain, uniformly level, and utterly destitute of vegetation or any sign that shrub or plant had ever existed above its snow-like surface. Pausing a few moments to rest our mules and moisten our mouths and throats... 
