 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 394 pages
...discouraging. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank above lined with sentinels, the landing place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark, and the steepness of the ground such as hardly to be surmounted in the day time. All these difficulties, however,... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...stream was rapid; the shore shelving; the bank of the river lined with sentinels; the landing place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark; and the ground so difficult as hardly to be surmounted in the day-time, had no opposition been expected. If... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1864 - 546 pages
...peculiarly discouraging. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank above lined with sentinels, the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark, and the steepness of the ground such as hardly to be surmounted in the day-time. AH these difficulties, however,... | |
 | Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 pages
...desperation. The stream was rapid ; the shore shelving ; the bank of the river lined with sentinels ; the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult as hardly to be surmounted in the daytime, had no opposition been expected. If... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 pages
...peculiarly discouraging. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank above lined with sentinels, the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark, and the steepness of the ground such as hardly to be surmounted in the daytime. All these difficulties, however,... | |
 | B. D. Turner - Latin language - 1893 - 452 pages
...desperation. The stream was rapid ; the shore shelving ; the banks of the river lined with sentinels ; the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult as hardly to be surmounted in the daytime, had no opposition been expected. If... | |
 | Thomas Smollett - 2006 - 448 pages
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The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank above lined with sentinels, the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark, and the steepness of the ground such as hardly to be surmounted in the daytime. 
