 | Robert William Chambers - 1923 - 1250 pages
...pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar ors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and CYeveXwaA, 3 Winnebago villages; they float alike... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1981 - 608 pages
...pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported...the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the birch canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1983 - 1470 pages
...pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported...the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the birch canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 pages
...pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported...the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the birch canoe; they arc swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1992 - 548 pages
...pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harbouring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported...capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages;168 they float alike the fullrigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer,... | |
 | Clifford Hiley Mortimer - 2004 - 340 pages
...interflowing aggregate, those grand freshwater seas of ours . . . possess an ocean-like expansiveness . . . they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beach canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted... | |
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... intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic... 