 ... 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 - Page 135by David Page - 1864 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | LIEUT N.F. MAURY, U.S.N. - 1851 - 344 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...motion 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...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,... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 304 pages
...motion, 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...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains * Dr. Buist, of Bombay. them dissolved in itself, or suspended... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - Gulf Stream - 1855 - 302 pages
...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,...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains * Dr. Buist, of Bombay. them dissolved in itself, or suspended... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - Marine meteorology - 1856 - 636 pages
...most stately forests and stab^ buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean in^ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It * Dr. Buist, of Bombay warms and cools by turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it.... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1860 - 542 pages
...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,... | |
 | Louis Gaussen - Bible - 1860 - 324 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and the firmest buildings to the earth; to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships * Dr. Buist of Bombay. to pieces like toys. It warms and cools by turns the earth and the living creatures... | |
 | Cornelius Sowle Cartée - Physical geography - 1861 - 356 pages
...motion 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...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and laud, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds,... | |
 | François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - 1864 - 300 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and the firmest buildings to the earth; to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships * Dr. Buist of Bombay. 8 to pieces like toys. It warms and cools by turns the earth and the living... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Coal - 1865 - 512 pages
...sufficient, when in motion, to level the most stately forests and stable 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, and again throws them down in rain or dew. It bends the rays of the sun... | |
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