 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 páginas
...washed away, and their great guns carried about in the air like chaff; houses were razed, ships were wrecked, and the bodies of men and beasts lifted up in the air and dashed to pieces in the storm. At the different islands, not less than twenty thousand persons lost their lives on shore, while farther... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 páginas
...washed away, and their great guns carried about in the air like chaff; houses were razed, ships were wrecked, and the bodies of men and beasts lifted up in the air and dashed to pieces in the storm. At the different Islands, not less than twenty thousand persons lost their lives on shore, while, farther... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1860 - 542 páginas
...washed away, and their great guns carried about in the air like chaff; houses were razed, ships were wrecked, and the bodies of men and beasts lifted up in the air and dashed to pieces in the storm. At the different islands, not less than twenty thousand persons lost their lives on shore, while farther... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - 630 páginas
...great guns carried about in the air like chaff; houses were razed, ships were wrecked, and the 1jodies of men and beasts lifted up in the air, and dashed to pieces in the storm. Not less than twenty thousand persons lost their lives, two men of war went down at sea, and fifty... | |
 | 1868 - 588 páginas
...fifty. sail were driven ashore at the Bermudas, two line-of-battle ships went down at sea, and upwards of twenty thousand persons lost their lives on the...with reference to the great guns carried in the air " lite chaff.'" In the gale of August, 1782, all the trophies of Lord Eodney's victory, except the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 páginas
...such a height that forts and castles were washed away,"and their great guns carried about in the air ; houses were razed, ships wrecked, and the bodies of...up in the air, and dashed to pieces in the storm. At the different islands, not less than twenty thousand persons lost their lives on shore, while, further... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 páginas
...uprooted — forts and castles were washed away, and their great guns carried in the air like chaft"; houses were razed : ships wrecked ; and the bodies...beasts lifted up in the air and dashed to pieces in tho storm " — an account, 462 TORNADOES AND LAND-STORMS. 463 however, which (though doubtless faithfully... | |
 | 1869 - 506 páginas
...washed away, and their great guns carried about in the air like chaff ; houses were razed, ships were wrecked, and the bodies of men and beasts lifted up in the air and dashed to pieces in the storm. At the different islands, not less than 20,000 persons lost their lives on shore ; while further to... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 358 páginas
...great hurricane of 1T80, which commenced at Barbadoes and swept across the whole breadth of the JSTorth Atlantic, fifty sail were driven ashore at the Bermudas,...the gale of August, 1782, all the trophies of Lord Rodney's victory, except the " Ardent," were destroyed, two British ships-of-the-line foundered at... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 394 páginas
...fifty sail were driven ashore at the Bermudas, two line-of-battle ships went down at sea, and upwards of twenty thousand persons lost their lives on the...the gale of August 1782, all the trophies of Lord Rodney's victory, except the Ardent, were destroyed, two British ships-ofi-the-line foundered at sea,... | |
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Bermudas, two line-of-battle ships went down at sea, and upward of twenty thousand persons lost their lives on the land. So tremendous was the force of this hurricane (Captain Maury tells us) that " the bark was blown from the trees, and the fruits of... 
