 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - 238 pages
...ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead cattle, in order to afford some shelter for the remainder of the living ; but they availed very little, for hunger caused them to tear one another with their teeth. The years 1709, and 1772,... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...that state, instantaneously. About the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford...When the storm abated, on the fourteenth day from its commenccI ment, there was, on many a high! lying farm, not a living sheep to 1 be seen. Large misshapen... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...a torpid state and died ; and about the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford some shelter for the living ; but the protection was of little service. Impelled by hunger, the sheep were frequently seen... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...a torpid state and died ; and about the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford some shelter for the living ; but the protection was of little service. Impelled by hunger, the sheep were frequently seen... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - Borders of Scotland - 1876 - 424 pages
...state, and all that were so affected in the evening died over night. The intensity of the frost would often cut them off when in that state quite instantaneously....for the remainder of the living ; but they availed little, for about the same time they were seen frequently tearing at each other's wool with their teeth.... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - Borders of Scotland - 1876 - 404 pages
...state, and all that were so affected in the evening died over night. The intensity of the frost would often cut them off when in that state quite instantaneously....for the remainder of the living ; but they availed little, for about the same time they were seen frequently tearing at each other's wool with their teeth.... | |
 | 1849 - 750 pages
...the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of the dead sheep, in order to afford some shelter for the remainder of the living ; this availed but little. When the storm abated, on the fourteenth day, there was, on many a high-lying... | |
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The intensity of the frost wind often cut them off when in that state quite instantaneously. About the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up huge semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford some shelter for the remainder of the... 