 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 476 pages
...The streets are deserted, and the dead 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 in pits they dig in the earth, where they wait the termination of this destructive... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 696 pages
...The streets are deserted, and the dead 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 in pits they dig in the earth, where they wait the termination of this destructive... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 364 pages
...longer appears, are hot: the streets are deserted, and a dead silence appears everywhere. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 372 pages
...longer appears, are hot: the streets are deserted, and a dead silence appears everywhere. 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 364 pages
...longer appears, are hot: the streets are deserted, and a dead silence appears everywhere. 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...hot. The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns every where. The inhabitants of towns and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in their tents, or in wells dug in the earth, where they wait the termination of this destructive... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 370 pages
...appears, are hot : the streets are deserted, and a dead silence pervades 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... | |
 | James Ewing Cooley - Arabian Peninsula - 1843 - 668 pages
...hot. The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns every where. The inhabitants of towns and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert TRAVELLERS OVERTAKE* BY THE Wo to the traveller whom this wind surprises remote from shelter... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1843 - 374 pages
...appears, are hot : the streets are deserted, and a dead silence pervades 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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...hot. The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns everywhere. The inhabitants of 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... | |
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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... 
