 Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women; the men stared at each other, but were dumb. At that moment they felt the earth shake beneath their feet; the walls of the...  The Last Days of Pompeii - Page 434by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English fiction - 1834 - 672 pages
...fellow-breast. Dread seers were they of the burthen of the atmosphere, and wild prophets of the wrath to come ! Then there rose on high the universal shrieks of women...crash of falling roofs ; an instant more, and the mour.tain cloud seemed to roll towards them, dark and rapid, like a torrent ; at the same time, it... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 450 pages
...were they of the Burden of the Atmosphere, and wild prophets of the wrath to come ! Then there rose'on high the universal shrieks of women ; the men stared...the earth shake beneath their feet; the walls of the theatre^trembled ; and beyond, in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs; an instant more... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...instantaneous strikes Th'illumin'd mountain ; through the forest streams, Shakes on the floods. (Thomson.) At that moment they felt the earth shake beneath their feet; the walls of the theatre trembled. — At the shout, > Arbaces to the lion!be had indeed trembled, and the dark bronze of his cheek had... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Elocution - 1870 - 204 pages
...a dull and dying red, that again blazed terrifically forth with intolerable glare. Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women ; the men stared...the earth shake beneath their feet; the walls of the the;; ire trembled ; and beyond, in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs. An instant... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...terrifically forth with intolerable glare ! There was a dead, heart-sunken silence. . . . Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women ; the men stared...crash of falling roofs ; an instant more, and the mountain cloud seemed to roll towards them, dark and rapid, like a torrent ; at the same time, it cast... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...were they of the Burden of the Atmosphere, and wild prophets of the wrath to come ! Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women ; the men stared...were dumb. At that moment they felt the earth shake under their feet; the walls of the theater trembled; and, beyond, in the distance, they heard the crash... | |
 | Readers - 1893 - 204 pages
...blazed terrifically forth with intolerable glare ! Then there arose on high the shrieks of women. Then men stared at each other, but were dumb. At that moment...they felt the earth shake beneath their feet ; the walla of the theatre trembled ; and beyond, in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs;... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...were they of the Burden of the Atmosphere, and wild prophets of the wrath to come ! Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women ; the men stared...were dumb. At that moment they felt the earth shake under their feet; the walls of the theater trembled ; and beyond in the distance they heard the crash... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...were they of the Burden of the Atmosphere, and wild prophets of the wrath to come ! Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women; the men stared...the earth shake beneath their feet; the walls of the theater trembled; and beyond in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs ; an instant more... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...were they of the Burden of the Atmosphere, and wild prophets of the wrath to come I Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women ; the men stared...earth shake beneath their feet ; the walls of the theater trembled ; and beyond in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs ; an instant more... | |
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