| Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...suggestion seems more prudent than its own) pressed in great crowds about us in our way out. Being advanced at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a most hazardous and tremendous scene, llhe chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...suggestion seemsmore prudent than its own) pressed in great crowds about us in our way out. Being advanced at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a most hazardous and tremendous scene. The chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...people followed them in the utmost consternation. When at a convenient distance from the houses, they stood still, in the midst of a most dangerous and dreadful scene. The chariots, they had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated backwards and forwards, though upon the most level... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...suggestion seems more prudent than its own) pressed in great crowds about us in our way out. Being got at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood...out were so agitated backwards and forwards, though in the open fields, that we could not keep them steady, even by supporting them with large stones.... | |
| Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...prudent than its own) pressed in great crowds about us, in our way out. Being advanced at a considerable distance from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a most hazardous and tremendous scene. The chariots which we had ordered out, were so agitated backwards and... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...followed us in the utmost consternation, and passed in great crowds about us in our way out. Being got at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood...out, were so agitated backwards and forwards, though in the open held, that we could not keep them steady, even by supporting them with large stones. The... | |
| John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...with burning craters, now extinguished for want of fuel." LXIX. Where all was night : " The chariots we had ordered to be drawn out, were so " agitated backwards and forwards, that we could not keep " them steady, even by supporting them with large stones. " Darkness overspread... | |
| William Clarke (Architect) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1847 - 636 pages
...prudent than its own, pressed in great crowds about us in our way out. Being got at a convenient distant from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a...chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out, were BO agitated backwards and forwards, though upon the most level ground, that we could not keep them... | |
| Antiquities - 1850 - 418 pages
...suggestion seems more prudent than its own, pressed in great crowds about us in our way out. Being got at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood...keep them steady, even by supporting them with large ftones. The sea seemed to roll back upon itself, and to be driven from its banks by the convulsive... | |
| Young people - 1852 - 1020 pages
...followed us in the utmost consternation, and pressed in great crowds about in our way. Being got to a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still...chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out were agitated backwards and forwards, though upon the most level ground, that we could not keep them steady... | |
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