 | Early English newspapers - 1790 - 644 pages
...tree and fbrub, that withftands the Ihock, is dripped of its boughs and foliage ; plants and grafs are laid flat on the earth ; luxuriant Spring is changed in a moment to dreary V* inter. — When this direful tragedy happens in a town, the devaluation is furveyed with accumulated... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...boughs and foilage. Plants and grass are laid flat to the earth. Luxuriant spring is in a moment changed to dreary winter. This direful tragedy ended, when...devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror: the harbour is covered with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former... | |
 | William Brown - Jews - 1823 - 532 pages
...driven through the air in every direction with immense velocity. Every tree and shrub that withstands the shock is stripped of its boughs and foliage. Plants and grass are laid flat on the earth; and luxuriant spring is changed in • Franklin's Phys. and Meteorol. Observations. a moment to dreary... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...through the air in every direction, with immense velocity — every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage —...spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter. This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror... | |
 | Frederic William Naylor Bayley - West Indies, British - 1830 - 1388 pages
...driven through the air in every direction with immense velocity ; every tree and shrub that withstands the shock is stripped of its boughs and foliage ;...direful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastion is surveyed with accumulated horror ; the harbor is covered with the wrecks of boats and... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...driven through the air in every direction, with immense velocity. Every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage. Plants and grass are laid flat to the earth. Luxuriant spring is in a moment changed to dreary winter. This direful tragedy ended,... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...direction with immense velocity. Every tree and shrub that withstands the shock is stripped of its leaves and foliage — plants and grass are laid flat on...a moment to dreary winter. " This direful tragedy being ended, when it happens iu a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror ; the harbour... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...velocity— every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stript of its boughs and fuliage — plants and grass are laid flat on the earth,— luxuriant...spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter. This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror:... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1875 - 476 pages
...shivered off and driven through the air with immense velocity. Every tree and shrub that withstands the shock is stripped of its boughs and foliage ;...luxuriant spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter." Gun any person read this description of the appearance of a country after a hurricane, without being... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Aeronautics - 1875 - 610 pages
...velocity. Every tree and shrub that withstands the shock is stripped of its boughs and foliage, and luxuriant spring is changed in a moment to dreary...devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror ; the harbour is covered with wrecks of boats and vessels, and the shore has not a vestige of its former... | |
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... distances from their walls, which are beaten to the ground, burying their inhabitants under them — large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with immense velocity — every... 
