 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1872 - 794 pages
...reached the Holy Island's bay. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...way : Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The castle... | |
 | 1876 - 612 pages
...another it appears a mountain rising — rising from a vast sandy plain, wedge-like cleaving the air : " For with the flow and ebb its style Varies from continent...to the shrine find way ; Twice every day the waves e0ace Of staves and sandaled feet the trace." In approaching the bay of Avranche at low tide one is... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 602 pages
...mainland by a narrow neck of sand, which can be crossed by foot-passengers at low-water : " For with its flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle...pilgrims to the shrine find way; Twice every day the wavea efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace." The Castle is of unknown antiquity. From its... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1873 - 502 pages
...Selkirkshire. It can be followed from 2 hrs. after ebb to 2J hrs. before flood, ie for CJ hrs. every tide— " For with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent...way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and saudall'd feet the trace." Pedestrians, however, should remember that dryshod is a poetical figure... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1873 - 614 pages
...reach'd the Holy Island's bay. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice ever)' Hay, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandall'd... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry shod, o'er sands, twice every day The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day the waves... | |
 | 1873 - 670 pages
...did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the saint's domain ; For with the flow and ebb its stylo Varies from continent to isle. Dryshod o'er sands twice every day The pilgrim's to the shrine find way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandled feet the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain ; For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle with its battled walls, The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...• Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandalled fuel the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view, The Castle,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...reached the Holy Island's bay. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the saint's domain: For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...way; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The castle... | |
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The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface... 
