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" ... 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 cries of men, some calling for their children, others for their parents, others... "
The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, A Tour Through Creation and Science - Page 338
by Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815
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Letters from a young painter abroad [J. Russell] to his friends in England

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...
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The midwife: or, The old woman's magazine, Volume 1

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,...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 1

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,...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 1

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...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

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...
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A Midsummer Day's Dream: A Poem

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...
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The picture gallery explored; or, An account of various ancient customs and ...

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,...
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The North American Review, Volume 106

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...
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The Metropolitan: V. 1 (no. 1-12); Jan.-Dec. 1830

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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