 | 1920 - 922 σελίδες
...beheld, peak over peak dipping deep in the sky, a thousand of them, icy and shining, rising higher and higher beyond and yet beyond another, burning bright...above them, purple shadows in the hollows and great beauty in a thousand forms awaited us at every turn in this bright and spacious wonderland." For me... | |
 | 1901 - 494 σελίδες
...higher, beyond and yet beyond one another, burning bright in the afternoon light, purple cloud-bars above them, purple shadows in the hollows, and great...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front. The nightless days circled away while we gazed and studied, sailing among the islands, exploring the... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - 1910 - 248 σελίδες
...the view to the west one of the most enchanting he had ever seen: " Peak over peak, dipping deep into the sky, a thousand of them, icy and shining, rising...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front." There are views of distant snow-capped mountains; the channel runs close to wooded shores with glimpses... | |
 | George Waldo Browne - 1910 - 294 σελίδες
...view to the west one of the most 1640 enchanting he had ever seen: " Peak over peak, dipping deep into the sky, a thousand of them, icy and shining, rising...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front." There are views of distant snow-capped mountains ; the channel runs close to wooded shores with glimpses... | |
 | George Kennan - 1922 - 458 σελίδες
...in the sky, a thousand of them, icy and shining, rising higher and higher, beyond and yet beyond one another, burning bright in the afternoon light, purple...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front. The nightless days circled away while we gazed and studied, sailing among the islands, exploring the... | |
 | George Kennan - 1999 - 468 σελίδες
...in the sky, a thousand of them, icy and shining, rising higher and higher, beyond and yet beyond one another, burning bright in the afternoon light, purple...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front. The nightless days circled away while we gazed and studied, sailing among the islands, exploring the... | |
 | Adolphus Washington Greely - 1925 - 396 σελίδες
...elevation, which is unbroken for about 200 miles. Four peaks — Foraker, Russell, Spurr, and McKinley — are above 10,000 feet, the last-named 20,464 feet,...a thousand forms awaited us at every turn in this bright and spacious wonderland. But that first broad, far-reaching view in the celestial light was... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1993 - 404 σελίδες
...higher, beyond and yet beyond one another, burning bright in the afternoon light, purple cloud-bars above them, purple shadows in the hollows, and great...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front. The nightless day circled away while we gazed and studied, sailing among the islands, exploring the... | |
 | John Muir, Terry Gifford - 1996 - 940 σελίδες
...higher, beyond and yet beyond one another, burning bright in the afternoon light, purple cloud-bars above them, purple shadows in the hollows, and great...breadths of sun-spangled, ice-dotted waters in front. The nightless days circled away while we gazed and studied, sailing among the islands, exploring the... | |
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... to the westward one of the richest, most glorious mountain landscapes I ever beheld - peak over peak dipping deep in the sky, a thousand of them, icy and shining, rising higher, higher, beyond and yet beyond one another, burning bright in the afternoon... 