 In vain is coolness sought for ; all bodies in which it is usual to find it deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns every...  Chambers's Information for the People - Page 109edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - Love poetry, English - 1809 - 292 pages
...it is usual to find it, deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The streets are deserted,...silence of night reigns every where. The inhabitants of houses and villages shut them•elves up in their houses, and those of the desert in their tents, or... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pages
...it is usual to find it, deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The streets are deserted,...the. dead silence of night reigns every where. The inhahitants of houses and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in their... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...usual to find it, >!<•ceivc the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are -hot. The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night icipu every where. The inhabitants of Urns ad villages shut themselves up in their iau»ea, and those... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...touche« them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The street» are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns every where. The inhabitant* of towns and villages shot themselves up in their house«, and those of the desert in their... | |
 | Dominique Jean baron Larrey - Medicine, Military - 1814 - 470 pages
...marble, metals, and water, although the sun be obscured, are warm : at this time the inhabitants of the towns and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the deserts in their tents, or in caverns and wells dug in the earth, where they wait the termination of... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...it is usual to find it, deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot The streets are deserted,...themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in tlieir tents, or in wells dug in the earth, where they wait the termination of this destructive heat.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...it is usual to find it, deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, waler, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The streets are deserted,...night reigns every where. The inhabitants of towns «nd villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in their tents, or in wells... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 pages
...it is usual to find it, deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The streets are deserted,...silence of night reigns every where. The inhabitants of houses and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in their tents, or... | |
 | Job (the patriarch), John Fry - Bible - 1827 - 630 pages
..." The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns everywhere. The inhabitants of the towns and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in their tents, or in pits they dig in the earth, where they wait the termination of this destructive heat. It usually lasts... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 400 pages
...longer appears, are hot : the streets arc deserted, and a dead silence appears every where. The natives of towns and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in tents, or holes dug in the earth, where they wait the termination of this heat, which generally lasts... | |
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