Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose: she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive... The New Monthly Magazine - Seite 2311855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 Seiten
...nobility and gentry who have left, or shall leave, this place through fear of another earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night.i These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose;... | |
| James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 Seiten
...several doors, and in a watchman's voice cried, "Past four o'clock, and a dreadful earthquake." . . Several women have made earthquake gowns, that is, warm gowns, to sit out of doors all night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose ;... | |
| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1906 - 408 Seiten
...and thirty coaches have been counted passing Hyde Park Corner with parties removing into the country. Several women have made earthquake gowns — that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors — these are of the more courageous." For some weeks a large portion of the fashionable world slept... | |
| 1876 - 514 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. Several women have made earthquake gowns, that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose.... | |
| Gilbert Elliot Earl of Minto - 1880 - 1048 Seiten
...effects of this communication. In after-ages, it will hardly be believed that, on the evening of the 8th of April, the open fields that skirted the metropolis...amiable dames were spared, to play at brag another day ! CHAPTER XVII. THE WARS AND APPREHENSIONS OP INVASION. THE last century was a peculiarly pugnacious... | |
| 1080 Seiten
...the Nobility and Gentry who have left or shall leave this Place through Fear of another Earthquake.'" Several women have made earthquake gowns — that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all the night. These are the more courageous. One woman still more heroic is come to town on purpose ;... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1890 - 364 Seiten
...Xobility and Gentry who have left, or shall leave, this place through fear of another Earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns ; that is,...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose : she says, all her friends are in London,... | |
| 1895 - 856 Seiten
...became more excited. Two days before that time Horace Walpole wrote to his friend Sir Horace Mann : " Several women have made earthquake gowns, that is,...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose; she says all her friends are in London, and... | |
| Susan Hale - 1898 - 334 Seiten
...Nobility and Gentry who have left, or shall leave, this place through fear of another Earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns ; that is,...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose ; she says, all her friends are in London,... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 Seiten
...coaches have been counted passing Hyde Park Corner, with whole parties, removing into the country. . . . Several women have made earthquake gowns, that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all the night." In 1783 he again gossips about earthquakes, and describes one shock " which Geo. Montague... | |
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