 Presently it shimmers in tongues of flame over the very zenith, and then again it shoots a bright ray up from the horizon, until the whole melts away in the moonlight, and it is as though one heard the sigh of a departing spirit. Here and there are left...  The Phantom of the Poles - Page 90by William Reed - 1906 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1897 - 456 pages
...green, now to red. It spreads, it contracts again, in restless change, next it breaks interwaving, many-folded bands of shining silver, over which shoot...glittering rays ; and then the glory vanishes. Presently it shines in tongues of flame over the very zenith ; and then again it shoots a bright ray right up from... | |
 | Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup - "Fram" Expedition - 1898 - 510 pages
...red-yellow moon, encircled by a yellow ring and light golden clouds floating on the blue background. Presently the aurora borealis shakes over the vault...the glory vanishes. Presently it shimmers in tongues 167 of flame over the very zenith ; and then again it shoots a bright ray right up from the horizon,... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - America - 1902 - 562 pages
...red-yellow moon, encircled by a yellow ring and light golden clouds floating on a blue background. Presently the aurora borealis shakes over the vault...very zenith, and then again it shoots a bright ray 25 right up from the horizon, until the whole melts away in the moonlight, and it is as though one... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 328 pages
...the aurora borealis shakes over the vault of heaven its veil of glittering silver — chang- 15 ing now to yellow, now to green, now to red. It spreads,...vanishes. Presently it shimmers in tongues of flame over 20 the very zenith, and then again it shoots a bright ray right up from the horizon, until the whole... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - American literature - 1911 - 616 pages
...to red. It spreads, it contracts again in restless change; next it breaks into waving, many- folded bands of shining silver, over which shoot billows...very zenith, and then again it shoots a bright ray 25 right up from the horizon, until the whole melts away in the moonlight, and it is as though one... | |
 | Otto Nordenskjöld, Ludwig Mecking - Antarctica - 1928 - 378 pages
...red-yellow moon, encircled by a yellow ring and light golden clouds floating on the blue background. Presently the aurora borealis shakes over the vault...tongues of flame over the very zenith, and then again F1G. 4— Mean July isotherms in the Arctic (in degrees C.). Scale, 1 : 100.000,000. it shoots a bright... | |
 | Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 340 pages
...to red. It spreads, it contracts again, in restless change, next it breaks into waving, many folded bands of shining silver, over which shoot billows...very zenith ; and then again it shoots a bright ray up from the horizon, until the whole melts away in the moonlight, and it is as though one heard the... | |
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