| William Gilpin - 1786 - 320 Seiten
...into ruin ; juft giving time to the terrified inhabitants to efcape. Scarce any thing was faveA; • except their lives : nothing of their furniture: few...beds, and had the additional diftrefs of flying naked from the ruin. The morning-light explained the caufe of this amazing fcene of terror-} and mewed the... | |
| William Gilpin - 1788 - 324 Seiten
...in perpendicular height. But it foon depofited this folid mafs ; and became a heavy fluid. One houfc after another, it fpread round — filled — and...beds, and had the additional diftrefs of flying naked from the ruin. The morning-light explained the caufe of this amazing fcene of terror ; and mewed the... | |
| William Gilpin - 1792 - 330 Seiten
...which had burft from the mofs, moved flowly on, fpreading itfelf more and more, as it got poffemon of the plain. Some of the inhabitants, through the...explained the caufe of this amazing fcene of terror ; and mewed the calamity in it's full extent : and yet, among all the conjectures of that dreadful... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 654 Seiten
...crushed into ruin ; just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarcely any thing was saved except their lives ; nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and had the additional distress of flying naked from the ruin. " The morning... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - 1802 - 316 Seiten
...crushed into ruin; just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarcely any thing was saved except their lives, nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and had the additional distress of flying naked from the ruin. " The morning... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 Seiten
...crushed into ruins, just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarcely any thing was saved except their lives ; nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and had the additional distress of flying naked from the ruins. The morning... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 Seiten
...crushed into ruins, just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarcely any thing was saved except their lives ; nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and had the additional distress of flying naked from the ruins. The morning... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 Seiten
...int'i ruins, just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarcely any thing was saved except their lives ; nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and had the additional distress of flying naked from the ruins. The morning... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 Seiten
...crushed into ruins, just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarcely any thing was saved except their lives ; nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and had the additional distress of flying naked from the ruins. The morning... | |
| Geologists' Association - 1891 - 806 Seiten
...crushed into ruin, just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape. Scarce anything was saved, except their lives ; nothing of their furniture, few of their cattle. Some people were even surprised in their beds, and hud the additional distress of flying naked from their rain. The morning... | |
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