 | Henry Peter Dunster - 1850 - 372 pàgines
...figure, than by resembling it to ;hat of a pine-tree ; for it shot up a great height in the form of i trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that mpelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...more exact description of its figure than by comparing it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards... | |
 | 1840 - 524 pàgines
...afterwards to ascend from Mount Vesuvius. Its figure resembled that of a pine-tree : fur it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at top into a sort of branches ; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pàgines
...more exact description of its figure, than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 pàgines
...description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine tree ; for it shot up to a great hight in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the...top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pàgines
...give a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pàgines
...more exact description of its figure, than by resembling it to that of a pine tree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upward... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pàgines
...description of its figure than by resembling it to a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in tho form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pàgines
...a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pinetree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1857 - 292 pàgines
...more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches." — PLINY. " Vesuvius robed in ever green attire f" " Above these," says Strabo, " rises Vesuvius,... | |
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I cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree ; for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches... 
