... 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 - 179. oldalszerző: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1835Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 oldal
...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... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 oldal
...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... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 oldal
...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... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 oldal
...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 lights which showed to each band the death-like laces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge beneath the nearest shelter. The whole elements... | |
| William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 oldal
...encountered one another, but without the leisure to speak, consult, or advise ; for the showers fell frequently, though not continuously, extinguishing...hurrying all to seek refuge beneath the nearest shelter. All the elements of civilization seemed to be broken up. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, one... | |
| 1899 - 312 oldal
...fears, these groups encountered one another, but without the leisure to speak ; for the showers fell frequently, though not continuously, extinguishing...faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, one saw the thief hastening by the authorities of the law,... | |
| 1899 - 312 oldal
...fears, these groups encountered one another, but without the leisure to speak ; for the showers fell frequently, though not continuously, extinguishing...faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek refuge. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, one saw the thief hastening by the authorities of the law,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1900 - 514 oldal
...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... | |
| A. Wolfromm - 1900 - 240 oldal
...ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without the leisure to speak*, to consult, to advise ; for the showers fell* now...continuously, extinguishing the lights, which showed* to each hand the death-like faces of the other, and hurrying all to seek* refuge beneath the nearest shelter.... | |
| 1905 - 474 oldal
...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,...broken up. Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, 3-0u saw the thief hastening by the most solemn authorities of the law, laden with, and 'fearfully... | |
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