 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 pàgines
...when there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...some wishing to die from the very fear of dying, some calling upon the gods ; but the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which... | |
 | 1861 - 606 pàgines
...them. All seemed to be filled i terror and despair, — as Pliny says, " some wishing to die from the T fear of dying, some lifting their hands to the gods ; but the greater imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was todal the gods and the world together."... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1866 - 138 pàgines
...to be heard but the shrieks of women, the cries of children, and the agonized shouts of men—some calling for their children, others for their parents,...family; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying; others lifting their hands in invocation of the gods; but most of them imagining that the last and... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - 1867 - 404 pàgines
...when there is no moon, but of a room when it is shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams...family, some wishing to die from the very fear of dying. . . . At length a glimmering light appeared, . . . then again we were immersed in thick darkness, and... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - 1867 - 408 pàgines
...shut up and all the lights extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the sereams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for...another that of his family, some wishing to die from tho very fear of dying. . . . At length a glimmering light appeared, . . . then again we were immersed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pàgines
...room38 when it is shut up, and all lights are extinct. Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks64 of women, the screams of children, and the cries of...some calling for their children, others for their parents,24 others for their husbands, and distinguishing one another by their voices ; one lamenting... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pàgines
..." nothing was to bi- heard but tho shrieks of women and children, and tin cries of men : some were calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinjuishing each other by their voices: one was lamenting his own fate, another that of his family;... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 526 pàgines
...scarcely stepped aside when utter darkness overspread them. Nothing was then to be heard, says he, but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men : some calling for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 276 pàgines
...scarcely stepped aside when utter darkness overspread them. Nothing was then to be heard, says he, but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men : some calling for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 394 pàgines
...side ' nothing was to be heard but the shrieks of women and children, and the cries of men : some were calling for their children, others for their parents,...only distinguishing each other by their voices : one was lamenting his own N fate, another that of his family ; some wished to die, that they might escape... | |
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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... 
