 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
 | George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1912 - 616 sidor
...dark by the crowd which followed us. We had scarcely stepped out of the path, when darkness In total overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or...but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men. Some were calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their... | |
 | Celia Richmond - 1913 - 296 sidor
...the dark by the crowds." We had scarcely done this when night came upon us — a blackness like that of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are put out. You could hear the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the shouts of men. Some... | |
 | Edward Hutton - 1915 - 392 sidor
...pressed to death in the dark, by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path, when darkness over-spread 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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 406 sidor
...pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely 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 * Now Capri.... | |
 | Margaret Coult - 1917 - 458 sidor
...night came upon us, not such as we have when the sky is 25 cloudy, or when there is no moon, but that of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights put out. You might hear the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the shouts of men; some... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1923 - 610 sidor
...pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely stepped out of the path when darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...it is shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men; some calling... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1882 - 940 sidor
...many marine animals on the shore ; the dark cloud behind, with its serpentine outbursts 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... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1872 - 854 sidor
...long train of fire, resembling flashes of lightning, but much longer.' Further on, he tells us : ' 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... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 509 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...it is shut up, and all the lights extinct. Nothing there was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1888 - 536 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 husbands,... | |
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