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" As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep... "
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Herculaneum and other poems

Charles Room - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1828 - 108 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had weak lungs, and frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after thi> melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly...
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THE CHRISTIAN'S PENNY MAGAZINE

the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...two of his servants, and instantly fell down dead, snffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross vapour. As soon as it was light again, which was not till the uiinl day after this melancholy accident, his body № found entire, without any marks of violence,...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 18

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 522 pages
...conjectures, by some gross and noxious vapour ; for he had always weak lungs, and was frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after, his body vías found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture...
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A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal ..., Volume 2

Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 664 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had weak lungs, and being frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as it was light again, which was not till the thud day after, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 30

Monthly literary register - 1810 - 726 pages
...that he was frequently* subject to a difticulty of breathing.*" On the third day subsequent to tins melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and...marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep tliuii dead.f It was in this tremendous eruption...
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Letters on various subjects. [With a portrait.], Volume 5

James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1847 - 376 pages
...suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour ; having always had weak lungs, and being frequently subjected to a difficulty of breathing....fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. ***** You will choose out of this narrative such circumstances as shall be most suitable to your purpose...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation

Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...servants, and instantly fell down dead, suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it." No lava was emitted from Vesuvius upon this occasion, but the shower of sand, stones, and cinders,...
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The natural history of pigeons

William Jardine, P. J. Selby - Pigeons - 1850 - 370 pages
...vapour, having always had weak lungs, and being frequently subject to a difficulty iu breathing. Aa soon as it was light again, which was not till the...was found entire and without any marks of violence, exactly in the posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead." " During all this...
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The Young Ladies' Reader: Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises and ...

William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had weak lungs, and frequently being subjected to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as...marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as when he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead." During these occurrences on the Pompeian...
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History of all nations, from the earliest periods to the present time; or ...

S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 pages
...as I conjecture, by some noxious vapor, having always had weak lungs, and being frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence, exactly in the posture in which he fell,...
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