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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... "
The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Page 679
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 9

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my...
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Volume 2

Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey - Literature - 1909 - 276 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead- . . ; My unele having...
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During all this time my...
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Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, Volume 27

Nutrition - 1911 - 860 pages
...himself up with the assistance of two of his servants, and instantly fell down dead; suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having...fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead." VERBAL AND GRAMMATICAL AMBIGUITIES. WORDS are slippery things ; they frequently refuse to do their...
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Naples and Southern Italy

Edward Hutton - Italy - 1915 - 392 pages
...I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor, having always had weak lungs, and frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as it was light...after this melancholy accident, his body was found intire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking...
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The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from ..., Volume 2

Esther Singleton - World history - 1916 - 406 pages
...gross and noxious vapor, as having alious vapors. wavs j^ weajc lungs, and being frequently subject to a difficulty of breathing. As soon as -it was light...was found entire, and without any marks of violence, exactly in the same posture in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. During...
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Mountains of Fire: The Nature of Volcanoes

Robert W. Decker, Barbara B. Decker - Science - 1991 - 230 pages
...servants, and instantly fell down dead; suffocated, as I conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapor. ... As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead. . . . During all this...
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World History: Societies of the Past

Charles Kahn, Ken Osborne - Education - 2005 - 368 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead... You will pick out of...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and ..., Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 3, Issue 30

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 848 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...it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking1 more like a man asleep than dead." During these occurrences on the Pompeian side of the bay,...
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The Literary World: Choice Readings from the Best New Books, with Critical ...

Literature - 1878 - 428 pages
...conjecture, by some gross and noxious vapour, having always had a weak throat, which was often inflamed. As soon as it was light again, which was not till...entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, in the dress in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead." It was almost exactly...
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