... destruction — the roofs of houses are carried to vast distances from their walls, which are beaten to the ground, burying their inhabitants under them — large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the... Four Years' Residence in the West Indies - Page 534by Frederick William N. Bayley - 1830 - 693 pagesFull view - About this book
| Early English newspapers - 1790 - 644 pages
...tree and fbrub, that withftands the Ihock, is dripped of its boughs and foliage ; plants and grafs are laid flat on the earth ; luxuriant Spring is changed in a moment to dreary V* inter. — When this direful tragedy happens in a town, the devaluation is furveyed with accumulated... | |
| Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1811 - 560 pages
...through the air in every direction I " with immense' velocity. Every tree and shrub, that with" stands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage....direful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the " devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror. The ". harbor is covered with the wrecks of boats... | |
| Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1811 - 560 pages
...1792, p. 10, &c. •VOL. in. • B " with immense velocity. Every tree and shrub, that with" stands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage...." spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter. — Thirf " direful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the " devastation is surveyed with accumulated... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...burying their inmates beneath them. Large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with...withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foilage. Plants and grass are laid flat to the earth. Luxuriant spring is in a moment changed to dreary... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...ground, burying mates beneath them. Large trees are torn up by the roots, ,nd huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with...that withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs :its and gi mi flat to the earth. Luxuriant spring is in a moment changed to dreary winter. This >... | |
| William Brown - Jews - 1823 - 536 pages
...their inhabitants under them. Large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction with...foliage. .Plants and grass are laid flat on the earth; and luxuriant spring is changed in « .Franklin's Phys. and Mcteorol. Observations. b London Phylosoph.... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...their inhabitants under them — large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with...spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter. This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror... | |
| Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...burying their inmates beneath them. Large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with...boughs and foliage. Plants and grass are laid flat to the earth. Luxuriant spring is in a moment changed to dreary winter. This direful tragedy ended,... | |
| Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...inhabitants under them. Large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches severed off and drhen through the air in every direction with immense velocity....shrub that withstands the shock is stripped of its leaves and foliage — plants and grass are laid flat on the earth — luxuriant spring is changed... | |
| Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...their inhabitants under them— laige trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off and driven through the air in every direction, with...every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stript of its boughs and fuliage — plants and grass are laid flat on the earth,— luxuriant spring... | |
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