 | Nina Cust, Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley - 1928 - 378 Seiten
...Mississippi, 'a slimy monster hideous to behold . . . this foul stream . . . that intolerable river ... an enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud . . . the filthy river' which 'seemed to be alive with monsters.' Nor was Mrs. Trollope's eye more... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 Seiten
...the end? AMERICAN NOTES* Charles Dickens [Here is another description of a Mississippi River sunset.] But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees: now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy, la/y foam works... | |
 | Richard W. Yerkes - 1987 - 303 Seiten
...River as "an enormous ditch, sometimes three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles per hour: its frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees" (Dickens 1972:216). The riverbed area of the modern Mississippi has been reduced to 87% of what it... | |
 | Dale L. Walker - 2002 - 484 Seiten
...of Waters suffered from an appalling disease, and probably its bank-dwellers as well. He called it "an enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles an hour . . . the banks low, the trees dwarfish, the marshes swarming with frogs," and said "the wretched cabins"... | |
 | Eric Sandweiss - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...himself unable to resist putting in a dig against the Mississippi River and its surrounding climate: What words shall describe the Mississippi, great father...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees: now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy, lazy foam works... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1893 - 560 Seiten
...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees: now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy, lazy foam works... | |
 | 1842 - 210 Seiten
...mountaineous for him,' and accordingly brought about a rrfixing. The Mississippi is graphically described as ' an enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud at the rate of six miles an hum .' Thus much for the travelling part. He seems to have been in an excellent... | |
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But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles an hour... 
