 And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could...  Democracy in America - Side 23av Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Andrew Delbanco - 1991 - 324 sider
...it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild... | |
 | Margaret Bedrosian - 1991 - 268 sider
...worldly vanity, and its desolation forced men's eyes upward, shielding them from their inner demons: "What could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men — and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not . . . which way... | |
 | Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker - 1993 - 518 sider
...was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to 57 be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 sider
...it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild... | |
 | Peter Stark, Steven M. Krauzer - 1995 - 234 sider
...it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten continued... | |
 | P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - 372 sider
...refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour. . . . what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men . . . Gardens provide a clue to a society's attitude toward nature. The first... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1994 - 460 sider
...it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast." That winter, while the Mayflower rode at anchor in Provincetown Harbor, the colonists... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 466 sider
...William Bradford, writing sometime after 1620 about the Pilgrims' first impression of their new land: [W]hat could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men. . . . [W]hich way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to the heavens)... | |
 | Richard Drinnon - 1997 - 614 sider
...Saints had stepped off their ships into what they could only see as a menacing waste. As Bradford mused, "What could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men." What could they see indeed?! — only another land of milk and honey, retorted... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 sider
...it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face,... | |
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