 | 1821 - 312 pages
...must make death certain. As the avalanche rushed on, huge masses of rock rifted from the mountain's side, were driven before it ; and the snows and ice...like the fall of an earthquake ; covering from human eye, villages, valleys, and people ! What an awful moment, when all was still ! — when the dreadful... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 624 pages
...certain. As the avalanche rushed on, huge masses of rock, rifted from the mountain's side, were driving before it ; and the snows and ice of centuries, pouring...like the fall of an earthquake; covering from human eye, villages, valleys, and people ! What an awful moment, when all was still ! — when the dreadful... | |
 | 1822 - 820 pages
...a thousand echoes, rushed onward in a devastating flood. masses of rock, rifted from the mountain's side, were driven before it; and the snows, and ice...like the fall of an earthquake; covering from human eye, villages, valleys, and people ! What an awful moment, when all was still! —when the dreadful... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...that must make death certain. As the avalanche rushed, huge masses of rock rifled from the mountain's side, were driven before it, and the snows and ice of centuries, pouring down in immense shattered forces and rending heaps, fell like the fall of an earthquake; covering from human eve, villages, valleys,... | |
 | 1825 - 844 pages
...rifted from the mountain's side, were driven before it, and the ice and snow of centuries, flowing down in immense shattered forms and rending heaps, fell like the fall of an earthquake ; covering human eyes, villages, valleys, and people ! — What an awful moment ! when all was still ! when the... | |
 | 1821 - 654 pages
...calamity. " As the avalanche rushed on, huge masses of rock rifted from the mountain side were driving before it : and the snows and ice of centuries, pouring...like the fall of an earthquake, covering from human eye, villages, valleys, and people ! What an awful moment when all was still ! when the dreadful cries... | |
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... over-shadowing of the falling destruction. The noise that accompanied it, was the most stunning, bursting, and rolling onward, of all that must make death certain. As the avalanche rushed on, huge masses of rock rifted from the mountain's side, were... 