 | Charles Carroll Fulton - Europe - 1874 - 334 pages
...the cloud seemed to descend and cover the whole ocean. Immediately after,darkness overspread them, not like that of a cloudy night or when there is no...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries... | |
 | Charles Carroll Fulton - Europe - 1874 - 334 pages
...the cloud seemed to descend and cover the whole ocean. Immediately after,darkness overspread them, not like that of a cloudy night or when there is no...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights ar« extinct. Nothing was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 932 pages
...high road, lest we should be pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path when darkness overspread us,...cloudy night, or when there is no moon, but of a room which is shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was heard but the shrieks of women, the screams... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy, Southern - 1878 - 592 pages
...road, lest she should be pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us. We had scarce stepped out of the path when darkness overspread us,...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing there was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pages
...night came upon us, not such as we have when the sky is cloudy, or when there is no moon, but that of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights put out. You might hear the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the shouts of men; some... | |
 | John Russell Young - Egypt - 1879 - 716 pages
...had yet any light, to turn out into the high road, lest we should be pressed to death in the dash of the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely stepped...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children and the... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for being the occasion of retarding my flight. 7. The ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no...room when it is shut up, and all the lights extinct. s. Nothing, then, was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries... | |
 | J. F. Packard - Voyages around the world - 1880 - 850 pages
...had yet any light, to turn out into the high road lest we should be pressed to death in the dash of the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely stepped...but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children and the... | |
 | J. F. Packard - Voyages around the world - 1880 - 832 pages
...should be pressed to death in the dash of the crowd that followed us. We had scarcely stepped out ot' the path when darkness overspread us, not like that...cloudy night, or when there is no moon, but of a room v\hen it is shut up and all the lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of... | |
 | Marlborough coll, nat. hist. soc - 1880 - 152 pages
...any light, to turn out of the high road lest she should be pressed to death in the dark by the crowd. We had scarcely stepped out of the path when darkness...overspread us, not like that of a cloudy night, or where there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up, and all the lights extinguished. Nothing... | |
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Nothing, then, was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices; one lamenting... 
