 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
 | Iain Murray - 2008 - 370 Seiten
...to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion 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 - 442 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 478 Seiten
...Though the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few^en 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. Looking down from this height about a minute gave... | |
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