 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...Beside a quantity of fresh weeds, such as grow in rivers, they saw a green fish, of a kind which keeps about rocks ; then a branch of thorn with berries; on it, and recently separated from the tree, floatec by them ; then they picked up a reed, a sranl board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...rocks, swam by the ships ; and a branch of thorn, with berries on it, floated by ; they picked up, also, a reed, a small board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. All gloom and murmuring was now at an end, and throughout the day each one was on the watch- for the long sought... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...rocks, swam by the ship ; and a branch of thorn, with berries on it, floated by ; they picked up, also, a reed, a small board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. All gloom and murmuring was now at an end, and throughout the day each one was on the watch for the long-sought land.... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - America - 1833 - 290 pages
...revolt was silcnt-4t mute messengers from land announced that a haven for the weary mariners was near ; a branch of thorn, with berries on it, and recently separated from a tree, a reed, a small board, a staff, artificially carved, floated towards them, and all said, we... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...which keeps about rocks ; then a branch of thorn, with berries on ii, and recently separated from ihe tree, floated by them ; then they picked up a reed,...board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. All g)6oinand mutiny now gave way to sanguine expectation ; and throughout the day each one was eagerly... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 230 pages
...proximity to land presented themselves on the following day ; a branch of thorns, with berries on it, a reed, a small board, and above all, a staff, artificially carved, were picked up by the sailors, whose gloom and mutiny then gave place to sanguine expectations. In... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 454 pages
...expressed a peremptory detern>MMi*«*'i to persevere, in defiance of all dangers and difficulties. then a branch of thorn with berries on it, and recently...the tree, floated by them ; then they picked up a reecj, a small board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. All gloom and mutiny now gave way... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...Besides a quantity of fresh weeds, such as grow in rivers, they saw a green fish ot a kind which keeps about rocks; then a branch of thorn, with berries on it, and recently separated Irotn the tree, floated by them ; then ihry picked up a reed, a small board, and. above all, a staff... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...Besides a quantify of fresh weeds, such as grow in rivers, they saw a green fish of a kind which keeps about rocks; then a branch of thorn, with berries on it, and recently separated.from the tree, floated by them ; then I hey picked up a reed, a small board, and, above all.... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...Among other signs they observed a branch of thorns with berries on it floating by; they picked up also a reed, a small board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. The greatest animation now prevailed throughout the ships; not an eye was closed that night. As the... | |
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Beside a quantity of fresh weeds, such as grow in rivers, they saw a green fish of a kind which keeps about rocks ; then a branch of thorn with berries on it, and recently separated from the tree, floated by them ; then they picked up a reed, a small... 
