 I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Pàgina 2201821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1821 - 712 pàgines
...naturally bad recount to my hamls to sustain my weight, but the; found no better support : so that I lösk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden «ases, which raised such a dust as kept n« motionless for a quarter of an hour, «iting till it .subsided... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pàgines
...to sit ; but my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether anong the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pàgines
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...again. I could not remove from the place, however, with_ out increasing it, and every step I took I crushed a mummy in some part or other. Once I was... | |
 | 1821 - 766 pàgines
...found one; my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, and it crushed like a band- box. 1 naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. " Thus 1 proceeded from one cave to another, all full of mummies, piled up in various ways, some standing,... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pàgines
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. 1 could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pàgines
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally \D ? z 0 |< s @G W / ݢ_ ͯ | 7 2` k xH yS_ V... N = % O k' F. 9 ( x h E v ^}\ 5v ' _^ ͙s u kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pàgines
...sit,; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dusl as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. 1 could not remove... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pàgines
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I natural]; had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a<i(M as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. 1 could not remove... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1821 - 292 pàgines
...recourse to his hands to sustain his weight, but they could find no better support, so that he would sink altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash...rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as sometimes left him motionless a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. BERNARD. — Oh,... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pàgines
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support j so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases,... | |
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