 Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting...  Italy: a poem. With historical and classical notes - Sida 495efter John Edmund Reade - 1838Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 sidor
...be pressed, to death by the crowd that followed us. " ' We had scarcely stepped out of the path when darkness overspread us: not like that of a cloudy night, or when there is no moon ; but of a room that is shut up, and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 sidor
...multitudes perished miserably by the highways and on the seashore. The dense darkness, " like that of a room when it is shut up and all the lights extinguished," continued, according to Pliny, for three days. At Rome, the earth trembled, and the... | |
 | 1830 - 570 sidor
...put to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path, than darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands,... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 392 sidor
...pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path, when darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up, * An island twenty miles from Naples, now called Capri. and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 354 sidor
...pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path, when darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up, * An island twenty miles from Naples, now called Capri. and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 sidor
...should be pressed to death by the crowd that followed us. \Ve had scarce stepped out of the path, when a darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or when there is no moon, but that of a room when it is shut up end all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 sidor
...moon, but of a room when it is shut up, * An island twenty miles from Naples, now called Capri. ami all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams ol children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others... | |
 | John P. Hiester - 1845 - 298 sidor
...pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path, when darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1882 - 958 sidor
...many marine animals on the shore ; the dark cloud behind, with its serpentine outhursts of flame ; the shrieks of women, the screams of children, the cries of men for parent, wife, and child ; the discharge, of which the bulk happily missed them, but yet showered... | |
 | Wilhelm Wittich - 1845 - 432 sidor
...when there is no moon; but such as is in a close room when all' light is excluded. Nothing was then to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their parents, others for their children, others for their... | |
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