All the hedges, garden-walls, and other boundary lines and land-marks of every description, were of course obliterated, under one uniform mass of detritus which had levelled all distinctions in a truly sweeping and democratic confusion. Patchwork - Página 33por Basil Hall - 1841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1841 - 558 páginas
...garden-walls, and other boundary lines and landmarks of every description, were of course obliterated under ons uniform mass of detritus which had levelled all distinctions...along the streets, as we see roads cut in the snow after a storm. On that side of every building which faced up the valley, and consequently against which... | |
| 1842 - 602 páginas
...and other boundary-lines and landmarks of every description , were of course obliterated under cue uniform mass of detritus which had levelled all distinctions...feet in thickness, so deposited that passages were obhged to be cut through it, nlong the streets, as we see roads cut in the snow after a storm. On that... | |
| 1844 - 520 páginas
...landmarks of every description, were of course obliterated under one uniform mass of detritus, which bad levelled all distinctions in a truly sweeping and...several feet in thickness, so deposited that passages had to be cut through it along the streets, as we see roads cut in the snow after a storm. On that... | |
| 1846 - 460 páginas
...widest, had risen to the height of ten feet. All the hedges, garden- walls, and other boundary-lines and landmarks of every description, were, of course,...several feet in thickness, so deposited that passages had to be cut through it along the streets, as we see roads cut in the snow after a storm. On that... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 páginas
...followed. Captain Hall visited Martigny a few weeks after this visitation, and found every land-mark obliterated under one uniform mass of detritus, which had levelled all distinctions in a " sweeping and democratic confusion." The removal of loose materials, the tearing up of fragments of... | |
| Robert Sears - 1856 - 566 páginas
...followed. Captain Hall visited Martigny a few weeks after this visitation, and found every landmark obliterated under one uniform mass of detritus, which had levelled all distinctions in a " sweeping and democratic confusion." But of all the phenomena exhibited by the high lands of the globe,... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 páginas
...followed. Captain Hall visited Martigny a few weeks after this visitation, and found every land-mark obliterated under one uniform mass of detritus, which had levelled all distinctions in a "sweeping and democratic confusion." The removal of loose materials, the tearing up of fragments of... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 562 páginas
...boundary lines and landmarks of every description, were of course obliterated under one uniform muss of detritus which had levelled all distinctions in...along the streets, as we see roads cut in the snow after a storm. On that side of every building which faced up the valley, and consequently against which... | |
| S. Warrand - 1842 - 614 páginas
...church was, and is, after all, our chief reliance in the hour of danger ! » — something figurative,1 perhaps, mingling with the poetical sentiment. 'All...along the streets, as we see roads cut in the snow after a storm. On that side of every building which fared up the valley, and consequently against which... | |
| 1844 - 520 páginas
...landmarks of every description, were of course obliterated under one uniform mass of detritus, which bad levelled all distinctions in a truly sweeping and...every house, without exception, there lay a stratum (if alluvial matter several feet in thickness, so deposited that passages had to be cut through it... | |
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