| 1839 - 512 pàgines
...points with violence prodigious beyond description, hurling before it thousands of missiles — the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...horrible roar and yelling of the wind, the noise of the ocean, whose frightful waves threatened the town with the destruction of all that the other elements... | |
| sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pàgines
...points with violence, pro111 digious beyond description, hurling before it thousands of missiles — the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...horrible roar and yelling of the wind, the noise of the ocean — whose frightful waves threatened the town with the destruction of all that the other elements... | |
| William Reid - 1838 - 470 pàgines
...with violence, pro'"• digious heyond description, hurling hefore it thousands of missiles — the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human art. The strongest houses were caused to vihrate to their foundations, and the surface of the very earth tremhled as the destroyer raged over... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pàgines
...clouds and the earth. The vast body of vapour appeared to touch the houses, and issued downward flaming blazes, which were nimbly returned from the earth...horrible roar and yelling of the wind, the noise of the o<-ean—whose frightful waves threatened the town with the destruction of all that the other elements... | |
| 1839 - 510 pàgines
...points with violence prodigious beyond description, hurling before it thousands of missiles — the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...horrible roar and yelling of the wind, the noise of the ocean, whose frightful waves threatened the town with the destruction of all that the other elements... | |
| 1839 - 464 pàgines
...western points with violence prodigious beyond conception, hurling before it thousands of missiles, the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...over it. No thunder was at any time distinctly heard; — had the cannon of a hundred contending armies been discharged, or the Culmination of the most tremendous... | |
| 1839 - 938 pàgines
...western points with violence prodigious beyond conception, hurling before it thousands of missiles, the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...to their foundations, and* the surface of the very earlh trembled as the destroyer raged over it. No thunder was at any time distinctly heard; — had... | |
| James Pollard Espy - 1841 - 614 pàgines
...western points with violence prodigious beyond conception, hurling before it thousands of missiles, the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...over it. No thunder was at any time distinctly heard ; had the cannon of a hundred contending armies been discharged, or the fulmination of the most tremendous... | |
| Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1851 - 700 pàgines
...points with violence, prodigious beyond description, hurling before it thousands of missiles — the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human...very earth trembled as the destroyer raged over it. " After 5 o'clock the storm, now and then for a few moments abating, made clearly audible the falling... | |
| William Reid - 1846 - 626 pàgines
...before it thousands of CHA P. missiles — the fragments of every unsheltered structure of human HIart. The strongest houses were caused to vibrate to their...horrible roar and yelling of the wind, the noise of the ocean — whose frightful waves threatened the town with the destruction of all that the other elements... | |
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