 ... stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion, its force is sufficient to level...  Advanced Text-book of Physical Geography - Stran 135avtor: David Page - 1864 - 320 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Burlington B. Wale - 1883 - 234 strani
...substances with its weight. When in motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns of... | |
 | John Christopher Draper - 1885 - 748 strani
...When in motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and buildings with the earth, to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns of clouds,... | |
 | Raphael Semmes - 1887 - 968 strani
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ship to pieces like toys. "It warms and cools, by turns, the earth, and the living creatures that inhabit... | |
 | 1889 - 466 strani
...and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion, its force is sufficient to level with the earth the most stately forests and...and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. 2. It warms and cools by turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors... | |
 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1891 - 398 strani
...sufficient to level th< most stately forests witli the earth ; to raise the waters of the ocean inb ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. Ii bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight •if evening and of dawn ; it... | |
 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1895 - 362 strani
...weight. When in motion, its force is sufficient to level the . most stately forests with the earth ; to raise the waters of the ocean into ; ridges like...and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight of evening and of dawn ; it disperses... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 strani
...and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion, its force is sufficient to level with the earth the most stately forests and...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns of clouds,... | |
 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1902 - 646 strani
...weight. When in motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests with the earth ; to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It Bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight of evening and of dawn ; it disperses... | |
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