 | John Murray (Firm) - 1890 - 366 pągines
...give a more exact description of ita figure than by likening 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 the form of branches. In the second letter Pliny describes more minutely the phenomena which point... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1893 - 570 pągines
...crater of Vesuvius. An eyewitness* compares its shape to a stone-pine, for, as he said, " it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches. . . It appeared sometimes bright, sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with... | |
 | William Gee - 1895 - 336 pągines
...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...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 Allen Tupper - 1898 - 480 pągines
...give a more exact description of its figure than by likening 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 the form of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air, which impelled it, the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 458 pągines
...give a more exact description of its figure than by comparing 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,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1904 - 462 pągines
...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...at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I suppose, either by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, whose force decreased as it advanced upward,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pągines
...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 itself at the top into a sort of branches. It appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated... | |
 | 1911 - 860 pągines
...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,... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1915 - 562 pągines
...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 itself at the top into several branches ; because I imagine, a momentary gust of air blew it aloft, and then failing, forsook... | |
 | Edward Hutton - 1915 - 392 pągines
...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 sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
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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... 
