 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
 | Various - 1994 - 676 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... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1996 - 388 Seiten
...sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have the resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet of fixed rocks, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about... | |
 | David Emblidge - 1996 - 410 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... | |
 | J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - 2001 - 460 Seiten
...is many times longer than the semi-axis which gives it's height. 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 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... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 Seiten
...sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have the resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet of fixed rocks, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - 2004 - 444 Seiten
...many times longer than the (semi-axis which gives its height). 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 Seiten
...residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of lime-stone. 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, Nature's Beauty . 39 and peep over it. Looking down from this height... | |
 | David Tucker - 2008 - 182 Seiten
...changes abruptly. Jefferson leaves measurement and geometry behind. 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... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 Seiten
...conveys what it felt like to crawl atop it and gaze downward: "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... | |
| |
