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" As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep... "
Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts - Page 6
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870
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Short Studies in Nature Knowledge: An Introduction to the Science of ...

William Gee - 1895 - 340 pages
...He raised himself up with Pliny's the assistance of two of his servants, and instantly fell death. down dead, suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross...fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead." The writer, with his aged mother, escaped with the people into the open. Their chariots pitched backwards...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 466 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor; having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. . Farewell. TO CALPURNIA...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 642 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor; having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. Farewell. TO CALPURNIA...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 pages
...servants, and instantly fell down dead, — suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had weak lungs, and frequently subjected...soon as it was light again, which was not till the the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 16

1901 - 660 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor ; having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. . . . Farewell. TO MATTMTTH!...
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The Volcano's Deadly Work: From the Fall of Pompeii to the Destruction of St ...

Charles Morris - 1902 - 524 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had weak lungs, and being frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. " As soon as it was...marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my mother...
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The Great Events by Famous Historians: A.D. 13-409

Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 440 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my...
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The Letters of Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in th* dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my...
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The Scrap Book, Volume 1

1906 - 594 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my...
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The World's Great Events ...: An Indexed History of the World from ..., Volume 2

Esther Singleton - 1908 - 524 pages
...some gross and noxious vapor, as having alvapors.wayS liad weak lungs, and being frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as it was light...was found entire, and without any marks of violence, exactly in the same posture in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During...
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