 ... darkness lay over it, and upon its groaning and tossing waves the storm of cinders and rock fell without the protection which the streets and roofs afforded to the land. Wild, haggard, ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each...  Last Days of Pompeii - Pagina 179door Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1835Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1834 - 604 pagina’s
...ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise; for the showers fell now frequently,...though not continuously, extinguishing the lights which shewed to each band the death-like faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge beneath the... | |
 | 1834 - 672 pagina’s
...ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without leisure to speak, to consult, to advise ; for the showers fell now frequently,...hurrying all to seek refuge beneath the nearest shelter. T he whole elements of civilization were broken up. Ever and anon, by the nickering lights, you saw... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pagina’s
...ghastly with superna tu ral fears, these groups encountered each other, bul without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise ; for the showers fell now frequently,...refuge beneath the nearest shelter. The whole elements ol civilisation were broken up. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, you saw the thief hastening... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pagina’s
...ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without leisure to speak, to consult, to advise ; for the showers fell now frequently,...continuously, extinguishing the lights which showed toeach hand the death-like faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge beneath the nearest... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pagina’s
...faces of the other, and hurrying all о seek refuge beneath the nearest shelter. The whole lements of civilization were broken up. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, you saw the thief hastenng by the most solemn authorities of the law. laden ivith, and fearfully chuckling over, the... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 450 pagina’s
...ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each Other, but without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise; for the showers fell now frequently,...beneath the nearest shelter. The whole elements of civilisation were broken up. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, you saw the thief hastening by... | |
 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pagina’s
...ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise; for the showers fell now frequently...faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge under the nearest shelter. The whole elements of civilization were broken up. Ever and anon, by the... | |
 | 1834 - 304 pagina’s
...ghastly with supernatural fears,, these groups encountered each other, but without leisure to speak, to consult, to advise ; for the showers fell now frequently,...extinguishing the lights which showed to each band the death like faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge beneath the nearest shelter. — The... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 pagina’s
...encountered each other, but without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise ; for the showers now fell frequently, though not continuously, extinguishing...flickering lights you saw the thief hastening by the solemn authorities of the law laden with, and fearfully chuckling over, the produce of his sudden gains.... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pagina’s
...ild—haggard—ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise; for the showers fell now frequently,...the flickering lights, you saw the thief hastening past the most solemn authorities of the law, laden with, and fearfully chuckling over, the produce... | |
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