 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade ; its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the...of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sunk to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...its particles, when it reached the earth, gave it the appearance rather of a globe of quicksilver. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank into a solemn murmur, or, more correctly, it resembled a distant roar, and lightning, which since midnight... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1839 - 464 pages
...the ground in Beckwith Square, opposite the stores of Messrs. HD Grierson and Co., it splashed around in the same manner as melted metal would have done,...appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise o\ the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 510 pages
...In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade : its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the...of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sunk to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
 | Meteorology - 1839 - 938 pages
...common barrel shade. Its brilliancy, and the sparkling of its particles on meeting the earth, gnve it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal...appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise ol the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade ; its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quickpiiver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise... | |
 | Physics - 1841 - 1316 pages
...would have done, and was instantly extinct : its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk." Shortly afterwards, the lightning recurred in terrific grandeur, and the hurricane in increased violence... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Astronomy - 1844 - 370 pages
...spattering of its particles, when it reached the earth, gave it the appearance of a globe of quicksilver. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank into a solemn murmur, like a distant roar; and the lightning, which, since midnight, had played in... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 780 pages
...extinct. In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade. Its brilliancy and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the...bulk. " A few minutes after the appearance of this phsenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or more correctly speaking a... | |
 | Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 772 pages
...resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. " A few minutes after the appearance of this phsenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or more correctly speaking a distant roar ; and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly, with... | |
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Its brilliancy and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. 
