| John Russell Young - 1879 - 756 Seiten
...when there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...family; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying, some lifting their hands to the gods; but the greater imagining that the last and eternal night... | |
| New reader - 1879 - 330 Seiten
...before) can readily be conceived. Even at Misenum, fifteen miles from Vesuvius, the younger Pliny says, " Nothing there was to be heard but the shrieks of women,...others for their parents, others for their husbands, being only able to distinguish each other by their voices, on account of the darkness ; one lamenting... | |
| Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 Seiten
...continued series of the most vivid flashes of lightning, rested upon the whole country, and himself, "was heard, but the shrieks of women, the screams of children,...others for their parents, others for their husbands or their wives, and only distinguishing each other by their voices, one lamenting his own fate, another... | |
| J. F. Packard - 1880 - 850 Seiten
...when there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying; some lifting their hands to the gods, but the greater portion imagining that the last and eternal... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 Seiten
...when there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights extinct. s. Nothing, then, was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...family; some wishing to die, from the very fear of dying; some lifting their hands to the gods; but the greater part imagining that the last and eternal... | |
| J. F. Packard - 1880 - 840 Seiten
...and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams '/children and the cries of men; some calling for...family; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying; some lifting their hands to the gods, but the greater portion imagining that the last and eternal... | |
| J. F. Packard - 1880 - 832 Seiten
...when there is no moon, but of a room v\hen it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...only distinguishing each other by their voices; one !amenting his own fate; another that of his family; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying;... | |
| Marlborough coll, nat. hist. soc - 1880 - 152 Seiten
...where there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights extinguished. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...their parents, others for their husbands, and only telling each other by their voices : one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family : some... | |
| Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1880 - 136 Seiten
...cloudy sky, or when there is no moon, but of a room shut up, and all the lights put out. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...their parents, others for their husbands, and only able to distinguish each other by the voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family;... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 Seiten
...when there is no moon, but the darkness of a close room when all light is shut out. Nothing was then to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their parents, others for their children, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by... | |
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