| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 Seiten
...attention was called to a cloud of unusual size and shape. In figure it resembled a pine-tree, for l' it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches." Anxious to command a nearer view of this remarkable phenomenon, Pliny ordered... | |
| 1868 - 850 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure than by comparing it to that of a pine-tree, for it sbot up to great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I suppose, either by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, whose... | |
| 1869 - 542 Seiten
...not clear from which mountain the cloud proceeded, but it was " like a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches." Many times since has the famous " pine-tree cloud " hung in terrific beauty over... | |
| John Phillips - 1869 - 458 Seiten
...more exact description of its f1gure than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
| Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 Seiten
...description of its figure than by resembling ifc to that of a pine tree, for it shot up a great hight in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 526 Seiten
...which was esteemed as greatly contributing to health, and therefore daily practised by them. — ED. & to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height...of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 276 Seiten
...which was esteemed as greatly contributing to health, and therefore daily practised by them. — ED. to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height...of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 358 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure than by comparing it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I suppose, either by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, whose... | |
| John Cave Winscombe - 1871 - 122 Seiten
...cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine tree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, and extended itself at the top in sort of branches."—PLINY. t " He was now so near the mountain that... | |
| Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure than by likening it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches : it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or... | |
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