 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 664 pages
...now supposed that the ships had sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and...these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. t The natives of the island were no less objects of curiosity to the Spaniards, differing, as they... | |
 | Washington Irving - West (U.S.) - 1883 - 1084 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample win^s, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 234 pages
...strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. 20. The wondering savages were won by this benignity. They now supposed that...these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. Washington Irving. QUESTIONS. — When night came on, in what part of the ship did Columbus station... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1885 - 474 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny willi perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity*. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon", or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Readers - 1891 - 208 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Education - 1892 - 568 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
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... benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. 
