 | Arminianism - 1846 - 664 pages
...GUST ATE MASSON. A SHIP IN THE ICE.* ALL parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense...difficulty we could make our orders heard by the crew. This scrutiny, although but of momentary duration, allowed us more narrowly to examine the scene around... | |
 | Frederick William Beechey - Arctic regions - 1843 - 392 pages
...general line of the pack, but in vain ; all parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense...difficulty we could make our orders heard by the crew. This scrutiny, although but of momentary duration, allowed us more narrowly to examine the scene around... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...with the waves, dashing together with a violence which nothing but a sulid body would seem able to withstand, occasioning such a noise, that it was with the greatest difficulty that the orders could be heard by the crew ; and " no language," says Captain Beecheyj " can convey... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1845 - 376 pages
...than the general pack, but in vain. All parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense...difficulty we could make our orders heard by the crew. This scrutiny, although but of momentary duration, allowed us more narrowly to examine the scene around... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 pages
...put the ship's head right into the ice, which was accordingly done by both vessels, and they plunged into the " unbroken line of furious breakers in which...difficulty we could make our orders heard by the crew. " Each person instinctively secured his own hold, and with his eyes fixed upon the masts, awaited in... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - Arctic regions - 1851 - 402 pages
...put the ship's head right into the ice, which was accordingly done by both vessels, and they plunged into the " unbroken line of furious breakers in which...greatest difficulty we could make our orders heard by the his own hold, and with his eyes fixed upon the masts, awaited in breathless anxiety the moment of concussion.... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Arctic regions - 1852 - 424 pages
...one place more open than the other. All parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense...such a noise that it was with the greatest difficulty the officers could make their orders heard bj the crew. " No language, I am convinced, can convey an... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...shore of Greenland, a violent gale compelled the Dorothea and the Trent to escape shipwreck by dashing into the " unbroken line of furious breakers, in which...body could withstand, occasioning such a noise that the orders were scarcely heard by the crew." " The terrific grandeur of the effect produced by the... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Arctic regions - 1857 - 1074 pages
...one place more open than the other. All parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense...such a noise that it was with the greatest difficulty the officers could make their orders heard by the crew. The fearful aspect of this appalling scene... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Arctic regions - 1860 - 346 pages
...one place more open than the other. All parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense...but a solid body could withstand, occasioning such a noiso that it was with the greatest difficulty the officers could make their orders heard by the crew.... | |
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All parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense pieces of ice were heaving and subsiding with the waves, and dashing together with a violence which nothing apparently but a solid body... 
