| John Russell (painter.) - 1748 - 324 pages
...by the crowd that " followed. " We had 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 pages
...Dark ., by the Crowd that followed. We had fcarce ftepped oat of the Path, when a Darknefs overfpread us, not like that of a cloudy Night, or when there is 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,... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth - 1757 - 390 pages
...dark, by the crowd that followed us. We 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,... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 pages
...to death in the dark, by the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely stepped out of the path, when Darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...but of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights extinct. Nothing, then, was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 620 pages
...scarcely stepped out of the path, when darkness overspread- us, not likethat 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, then, was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...in the dark, by the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely stepped out of the path, when dark' ness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or...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... | |
| Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...after us like a torrent. I proposed while we had yet any light, to turn out of the high road, lest she should be pressed to death in the dark by the crowd...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries... | |
| Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...be pressed, to death by the crowd that followed us. " ' We had scarcely stepped out of the path when 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 was to be heard but the shrieks of women,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...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... | |
| 1830 - 570 pages
...put to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path, than darkness overspread us, not like that of a cloudy...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries... | |
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