 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...indeed, such as might be felt ; owing, no doubt, to the prodigious clouds of dust and lime raised from so violent a concussion, and, as some reported, to sulphureous...but this I cannot affirm ; however, it is certain I found myself almost choked for near ten minutes. As soon as the gloom began to disperse, and the violence... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...indeed, such as might be felt, owing, no doubt, to the prodigious clouds ff dust and lime raised from so violent a concussion, and, as some reported, to sulphureous...but this I cannot affirm; however, it is certain I found myself almost choked for near ten minutes. As soon as the gloom began to disperse, and the violence... | |
 | Joaquim António de Macedo - 1874 - 346 pages
...to the prodigious clouds of dust and lime, raised from so violent a concussion and as some reported, sulphureous exhalations: but this I cannot affirm: however, it is certain I found myself almost choked for nearly ten minutes. «As soon as the gloom began to disperse, and the... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...indeed, such as might be felt ; owing no doubt to the prodigious clouds of dust and lime raised from so violent a concussion, and, as some reported, to sulphureous...but this I cannot affirm ; however, it is certain I found myself almost choked for near ten minutes. LXV. It must have been observed by many a peripatetic... | |
 | John Edwin Nixon - Latin language - 1892 - 158 pages
...stones falling down25 on every side from the cracks, and 15 the ends of most of the rafters starting41 out from the roof. To add23 to this terrifying scene11,...saved, and in this dress I hurried down stairs11, and2 made directly to that end of the street which opens to the Tagus. In the midst of our devotions19,... | |
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... of the rafters starting out from the roof. To add to this terrifying scene, the sky in a moment became so gloomy that I could now distinguish no particular object ; it was an Egyptian darkness indeed, such as might be felt ; owing, no doubt, to the... 
