 | John Russell (painter.) - 1748 - 324 pagina’s
...fcarce fteped out of the path, when " a darknefs over-fpread us, not like that of a " cloudy night, or when there is no moon, but " of a room when it is Ihut up, and all the lights " eitindl. Nothing then was to be hear'd but " the Ihrieks of women, the... | |
 | Midwife - 1750 - 302 pagina’s
...no Moon, but of a Room when 'sis fhut up, and .all the Lights extinci ; nothing then was to be heawl but the Shrieks of Women, the Screams of Children,...Children, others for their Parents, others for their Hufbands, and only diftinguiftnng each other by their Voices ; one lamenting his own Fate, another... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth - 1757 - 390 pagina’s
...had fcarce fteped out of the path, when darknefs over-fpread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or when there is no moon, but of a room when it is fhut up, and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be Y 2 hear'd hear'd but the fhrieks of women,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pagina’s
...scarcely stepped out of the path, when dark' ness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or when there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights extinct. Nothing thenwas to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 568 pagina’s
...scarce stepped out of the path, when a darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or 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 of children, and the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pagina’s
...scarce stepped out of the path, when a darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or wheu 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 of children, and the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 590 pagina’s
...path, when a darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or when there is no muon, bat 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 of children, and the... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pagina’s
...darkness overspread us: not like that of a cloudy night, or when there is no moon ; but of a room that is shut up, and all the lights extinct. Nothing then...some calling for their children, others for their husbands, others for their parents, and only distinguishing them by their voices. One lamenting his... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pagina’s
...multitudes perished miserably by the highways and on the seashore. The dense darkness, " like that of a room when it is shut up and all the lights extinguished," continued, according to Pliny, for three days. At Rome, the earth trembled, and the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - 700 pagina’s
...say, in his graphic letter to Tacitus: 'Nothing then was heard but the shrieks of women, the screama of children, and the cries of men. Some calling for their children, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices. One lamenting his own fate, another that... | |
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II calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate... 
