 | Literature - 1851 - 648 pages
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed... | |
 | Christine Quigley - Social Science - 1996 - 372 pages
...contrived to sit; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. . .1 sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed... | |
 | Robert Silverberg - Social Science - 1997 - 420 pages
...sit; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed... | |
 | Douglas J. Brewer, Emily Teeter - History - 1999 - 242 pages
...contrived to sit; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box ... I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags and wooden cases . . . and every step I took crushed a mummy in some part or other. (Belzoni in Vercoutter 1992: 182)... | |
 | Brian Fagan - History - 2004 - 324 pages
...to sit; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. He openly admitted that his purpose "was to rob the Egyptians of their papyri; of which I found a few... | |
 | Harry Thurston - History - 2004 - 412 pages
...Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia, published in 1 820, he wrote of his travail in a tomb: "I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones and rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour... | |
 | 1821 - 668 pages
...contrived tosit ; but when my •weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. 1 instantly had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight,...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and etery step I took 1 crushed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed... | |
 | Europe - 1823 - 778 pages
...and found one; my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, and it crushed like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. " Thus I proceeded from one cave to another, all full of mummies, piled up in various ways, some standing,... | |
 | 1823 - 434 pages
...to sit; bnt when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian it crashed like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sank altogether among the broken mummies, « ith a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised... | |
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I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk... 
