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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Page 679
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The Mirror of History, Or, Lives of the Men of Great Eras, from Julius ...

Edward Budge - Biography - 1851 - 326 pages
...resist, having always had weak lungs, and a difficulty of breathing. The third day after his death, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as ho fell, m,d looking more like a man asleep than dead. 27. Such nro nearly the words in which this...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 18

1840 - 524 pages
...; for he had always weak lungs, and was frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon aa it was light again, which was not till the third day after, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...servants, and instantly fell down dead; suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had weak lungs, and frequently subjected...violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that ho fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my mother and I, who were...
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A History of All Nations: From the Earliest Periods to the Present ..., Volume 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1857 - 598 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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The Sydenham Sindbad [by - Rand].

Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...servants, and instantly fell down dead — suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had weak lungs, and frequently subjected...fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.' . . . " Pliny, the nephew, stayed with his mother on the other side of the water, at Misenum, where...
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A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies, Volume 2

Julia Kavanagh - Italy - 1858 - 344 pages
...suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had weak lungs, and been frequently subjected to a difficulty of breathing....fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead." In this simple, yet graphic account, we see not merely the great naturalist meeting peril with the...
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A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ...

John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1858 - 496 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...third day after this melancholy accident, his body woe found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell,...
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The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Volume 28

Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 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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A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the Provinces ...

John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1862 - 524 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...accident, his body was found entire, and without any marke of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep...
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The wonders and beauties of Creation, portrayed by Buffon [and others].

Wonders - 1866 - 400 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...marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. " During all this time my mother...
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