 | Robert Silverberg - 1997 - 420 sidor
...round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father to son, and from generation to generation. It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst...long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel, and,... | |
 | Terryl L. Givens - 2002 - 334 sidor
...are silent on this theme. The dty was desolate. No remnant of this race hangs around the ruins. . . . It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst...long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people, ... perhaps, never to be known at all. . . . All was mystery, dark, impenetrable mystery,... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - 2003 - 588 sidor
...round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father to son, and from generation to generation. It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst...long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel, and,... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - 2005 - 580 sidor
...round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father to son, and from generation to generation. It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst...long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel, and,... | |
 | Garrett G. Fagan - 2006 - 448 sidor
...round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father to son and from generation to generation. It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst...long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction ... all was mystery, impenetrable mystery, and every circumstance increased it. (Stephens 1949: 81)... | |
 | 1843 - 758 sidor
...ruins, with traditions handed down from father to son, and from generation to generation. The city lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of...long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction ; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel,... | |
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The city was desolate. . . It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced, her crew perished, and none to tell whence she came, to whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction 
