There was a sense of lifting, upheavingpower about him.
The entering darkness, moreover, was but an effect of the upheaving night behind him as he strode across the threshold.
In Paris, it was an upheaving of classes, marked and established by men of kindred blood, and born to the same soil.
But all these sounds were nothing to the howl of the winds, and the great upheaving rout of the waters, as they swelled and mingled together in one tremendous uproar.
The old chief was moved, and his upheavingbreast gave proof that he was a man.
The great Grand Duke of all the Russias has been thrown upon our shore by anupheaving of the mighty deep, and is now rocking at his ease in the iron-clad cradle of a great nation.
Myself, and not myself, I sit here as if I had just come out of the upheaving of an earthquake.
I have heard the moan of its restless waters in the caverns of the great deep, and have seen the upheaving of the billows, which rose, and raged and tossed as foam from their bosoms, the wild spirits that gendered the tempest.
Here are vast expanses clad in the refreshing drapery of nature, upheaving their grassy billows.
But this century was distinguished for an upheaving of the human mind, which found its development in other things besides the bursting forth of architectural skill.
Gust after gust from beneath them, carried them landward; mighty and vast as they were, they were borne landward as though so many feathers, by the upheaving force of those mighty blasts.
There is, besides, a constant interchange of electricities between the ocean and the burning mountains, the upheaving from the ocean bed having probably some connection with the reparatory powers.
Great upheaving movements have been experienced in the region of the Andes, during the Post-Pliocene period.
But the four principal lines of cliff observed in the Morea do not imply, as some have imagined, four great eras of sudden upheaval; they simply indicate the intermittence of the upheaving force.
Thus, in parts of Sweden, and the shores and islands of the Gulf of Bothnia, proofs have been obtained that the land is experiencing, and has experienced for centuries, a slow upheaving movement.
And why should it not have got there by the same process by which similar old coral beds get up the mountain sides in the West Indies and elsewhere; namely, by the upheaving force of earthquakes?
Sea and dry land, upheaving of land over the waters, or subsiding of the ocean.
The Earth, indeed, is still upheaving and subsiding, but so slowly that we rarely feel it.
He alludes, for example, to the upheaving of one of the Eolian islands previous to a volcanic eruption.
F, either by the upheaving of the portion A, or the sinking of the portion B, the strata were so displaced that the bed a in B is many feet lower than the same bed a in the portion A.
And such a predominance of depression is far from improbable, on mechanical principles, since every upheaving movement must be expected either to produce caverns in the mass below, or to cause some diminution of its density.
As to the area in northern Europe which is subject to this slow upheaving movement, we have not as yet sufficient data for estimating it correctly.
The form of the shoal of Mornerouge, at the mouth of the river Bourdones, was changed by an upheaving of the ground.
Their walls, of a dull, yellowish red, seem more like an upheaving of the soil itself, than massive stone piled up by the labor of man.
I never had liked the girl; now, this upheaving of the dark blood, from which all that made her kin to me revolted, even in her own system, shocked and humiliated me.
He is going to tell me about the Upheaving of AElfred" thought Phillis.
He is writing a long epic poem called the Upheaving of AElfred.
She set the tea on the table and sat down, looking up at the Poet, who rose from his easy chair and made answer, walking up and down the room: "It is called the Upheaving of AElfred.
Cornelius was engaged--had been engaged for twenty years--upon an epic poem, entitled theUpheaving of AElfred.
Cornelius is a great poet; he is engaged on a work--The Upheaving of AElfred--which will immortalise his name.
It seemed to have been rudely cast up, convulsionized, as it were, by a violentupheaving of the lower strata.
The mass, giving way to some prodigious upheaving of nature, had split in two, leaving the vast gap into which we inhabitants of the earth had penetrated for the first time.
They are not anupheaving of the breast, nor those devotional sensations, not uncommon, which seem on the point of causing suffocation, and are beyond control.
It is like those little wells I have seen flowing, wherein the upheaving of the sand never ceases.
These basins, as well as those of Jauja, Cuenca and Almaguer, which lose their waters only by a lateral and narrow issue, owe their origin to a cause more instantaneous, more closely linked with the upheaving of the whole chain.
I have become so accustomed to these glacial eruptions, that I mounted theupheaving ice, and rode upon the fragments--an amusement I could hardly have practiced safely before I had studied their changes.
The humming of bees and upheaving hummocks, together with exploding cracks, warned me back to the vessel.
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