 ... the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.  Corso di lingua inglese - Page 121by Vittorio Mussi - 1863Full view - About this book
 | James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...varied also in colour, appearing sometimes bright, red and fiery, at others, dark, spotted and black, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble scope for the philosophic and gallant mind of Plinius; he ordered a light swift sailing... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted,...more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be got... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | C. Gros - French language - 1818 - 492 pages
...expanded in this manner; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either* more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited (my uncle's)" philosophical*4 curiosity (to take a nearer view of it)". He ordered [4] accorder a ; [/] talent, ting.;... | |
 | Sir William Gell, John Peter Gandy - Extinct cities - 1821 - 496 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued arising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and 1 Other phaenomena had also been remarked, although no inference had been drawn from their occurrence.... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...expanded in this manner: it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | Sir William Gell - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1824 - 228 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued arising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and 1 Other phaenomena had also been remarked, although no inference had been drawn from their occurrence.... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1825 - 178 pages
...the top into many branches. It sometimes appeared bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon, as might be expected, excited Pliny's philosophical curiosity; and? OF VESUVIUS. 35 regardless of danger,... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued rising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. Having attained an immense elevation, expanding itself, it spread out horizontally, in form like the... | |
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