 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...has not a \ .is formerstate remaining. Mounds of rubbish and ratters in one place ; heaps of cftrth and trunks of trees in another; deep gullies from...torrents of water; and the dead and dying bodies of men, , and children, .id scattered ali> where streets but a few :,.re were, present to ierable survivors... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...covered with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place ; heaps...and trunks of trees in another; deep gullies from torn HIS of water; and the dead and dying bodies of men, •women, and children, half buried, and scattered... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...•with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps...before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake,... | |
 | Frederic William Naylor Bayley - West Indies, British - 1830 - 1388 pages
...with the wrecks of boats and vessels, and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining ; mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps...a spectacle generally followed by famine, and when accompanied by an earthquake with mortal diseases. " Such were the hurricanes that left melancholy... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...covered with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place ; heaps...where streets but a few hours before were, present to the miserable survivors a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be foliowed by famine, and, when... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...with wrecks of 412 boats and vessels, and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place — heaps...scattered about, where streets but a few hours before were — all present the miserable survivors with the shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...with wrecks of boats and vessels; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. . Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps...buried, and scattered about, where streets but a few hoars before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...thus from the Hungarian words husz (twenty), and ar (pay, was formed the its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps...before were. present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...earth and trunk* of trees in another, deep I gullies from torrents of water, and the dead j and (lying bodies of men, women, and children, half buried, and...before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...the chapel of earth and trunks of trees in another, deep Bethlehem at Prague ; who, about the year gullies from torrents of water, and the dead and dying bodies of men, women, and chil1-114, embraced and defended the opinion of Wickliff of England, for which he was cited dren, half... | |
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This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered •with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish... 
