 Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it....  The Monthly Magazine - Seite 2441808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 Seiten
...the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of the bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 Seiten
...de Chastelluse, of the Virginian bridge of rocks. "Though the sides of the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 Seiten
...Chastelluse, of the Virginian bridge of rocks. "Though the sides of the bridge," says he, " are pro* vided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 482 Seiten
...the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. " If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...de Chastelluse, of the Virginian bridge of rocks. "Though the sides of the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 Seiten
...the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss : you involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it Looking down from this height about a minute gave... | |
 | Book - 1850 - 210 Seiten
...Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few people have resolution to walk to them, and look over into...your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent headache." The view from below of this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 634 Seiten
...the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1854 - 668 Seiten
...the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss : you involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1855 - 444 Seiten
...the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, c*eep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
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