 | 1803 - 598 էջ
...moved with great force and switness towards the Severn, attended with great and uncommon noise, which Wilcocks compared to a large flock of sheep running swiftly by him. That part of the land next the river was a small wood, under two acres, in which grew twenty large... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 696 էջ
...the river. Immediately the land behind them, with the trees and hedges, moved towards the Severn with great swiftness and uncommon noise, which Samuel Wilcocks...the devoted spot, and the Birches saw a momentary represen-. tation of a partial chaos : — Then Nature seemed to have forgotten her laws: — The opening... | |
 | Shropshire gazetteer - 1824 - 1028 էջ
...land behind them, with the trees and hedges, moved towards the Severn, with great swiftness and an uncommon noise, which Samuel Wilcocks compared to...— Then nature seemed to have forgotten her laws : — Trees commenced itinerant : those that were at a distance from the river, advanced towards it,... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 էջ
...river. Immediately the land behind them, with the trees and hedges, moved towards the Severn, with great swiftness and uncommon noise, which Samuel Wilcocks...him. It was then chiefly that desolation expanded her ia wings over the devoted spot, and the Birches saw a momentary representation of a partial chaos :... | |
 | 1831 - 548 էջ
...with the trees and hedges, moved towards the Severn with great swiftness and uncommon noise, which Wilcocks compared to a large flock of sheep running swiftly by him. In a word, dry land exhibited the dreadful appearance of a sea storm; solid earth seemed to possess... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 600 էջ
...with the trees and hedges, moved toward the Severn, with great swiftness and uncommon noise, whicli Samuel Wilcocks compared to a large flock of sheep...those that were at a distance from the river, advanced toward it, while the submerged oak broke out of its watery confinement, and by rising many feet recovered... | |
 | 1879 - 100 էջ
...the land behind them with the trees and hedges moved towards the Severn with great swiftness and an uncommon noise, which Samuel Wilcocks compared to...momentary representation of a partial chaos ! then nature 8eemed to have forgotton her laws : trees became itinerant ! — those that were at a distance from... | |
 | John Randall - 1890 - 414 էջ
...the land behind them with the trees and hedges moved towards the Severn with great swiftness and an uncommon noise, which Samuel Wilcocks compared to...! then nature seemed to ha.ve forgotten her laws: trees became itinerant ! — those that were at a distance from the river advanced towards it, while... | |
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Severn witli great swiftness and uncommon noise, which Samuel Wilcocks compared to a large flock of sheep running swiftly by him. • • . •• It was then chiefly that desolation expanded her wings over , the devoted spot, and the Birches saw a momentary... 