 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...prudent to trust to the houses, -which now shook from side to side with frequent and violent rockings; or to fly to the open fields, where the calcined stones...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two; imd went out, having pillows tied upon their heads with napkins, which was all their defence against... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...stones and cinders, though levigated indeed, yet fell in large showers, and threatened them with instant destruction. In this distress, they resolved for the...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two ; a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into by the! r fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...stones and cinders, though levigated indeed, yet fell in large showers, and threatened them with instant destruction. In this distress, they resolved for the...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two ; a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into by their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...to trust to the houses, which now shook from side to side with frequent and violent concussions ; or fly to the open fields, where the calcined stones...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two ; a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into it by their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...which now shook from side to side with frequent and violent concussions ; or fly to the open fi«lds, where the calcined stones and cinders, though light...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two ; a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into it by their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | C. Gros - French language - 1818 - 492 pages
...(trust to/ the houses, which now shook (from side to side)" with" frequent and violent concussions ; or fly (to the open)' fields, where the calcined stones...they resolved' for the fields, as the less dangerous of the two ; a resolution which, (while the rest of the company were hurried" into it by their** fears)1,... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...frequent and violent concussions; or fly to the open fields, where the calcined stones and cinden, though light indeed, yet fell in large showers, and...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two; a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into bj their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...stones and cinders, though levigated indeed, yet fell in large showers, threatening them with instant destruction. In this distress they resolved for the...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two : a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into by their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | Charles Room - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1828 - 108 pages
...to trust to the houses, which now shook from side to side, with frequent and violent concussions, or fly to the open fields, where the calcined stones...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two : a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into by their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...to trust to the houses, which now shook from side to side with frequent and violent concussions; or fly to the open fields, where the calcined stones...fields, as the less dangerous situation of the two ; a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into it by their fears, my uncle embraced... | |
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They consulted together whether it would be most prudent to trust to the houses, which now shook from side to side with frequent and violent concussions ; or fly to the open fields, where the calcined stones and cinders, though light indeed, yet fell... 
