 | Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori - Nature - 1995 - 236 pages
...Pliny later described his uncle's tragic but stoic death in a letter to the historian Tacitus: And now cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships, then pumice-stones too, with stones blackened, scorched, and cracked by fire, then the sea ebbed suddenly... | |
 | Kathryn Hinds - Cities and towns - 2005 - 84 pages
...rescue mission, with several ships working to carry people away from the catastrophic eruption. "And now cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships, then pumice stones, too, with stones blackened, scorched, and cracked by fire. Then the sea ebbed suddenly... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - Travel - 2005 - 509 pages
...direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion....he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice stones, and black pieces of burning rock. They were likewise in danger not only of being aground... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 848 pages
...direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion...burning rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of Toeing • The Romans used to lie or walk naked in the sun, after anointing their bodies with oil,... | |
 | Charles Morris - Anthologies - 1888 - 536 pages
...direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion...he approached, fell into the ships, together with the pumice-stones and black pieces of burning rock : they were likewise in danger not only of being... | |
 | Alexandra Hanson-Harding - Education - 2000 - 84 pages
...with the utmost terror, he steered his course direct to the point of danger ... He was now so close to the mountain that the cinders, which grew thicker...he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice stones, and black pieces of burning rock; they were in danger too not only of being aground... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 522 pages
...were flying with tlio utmost terror, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He went so near to the mountain, that the Inders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached,... | |
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When hastening to the place from whence others fled with the utmost terror, he steered his direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure... 
