 Upwards of one hundred lay prostrate on the ground, some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful ; for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors...  The Story of the Stars: A Descriptive Astronomy - Page 305by Joel Dorman Steele - 1884 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...and in many places the utmost terror and alarm was caused by tho sight. One observer wrote : — " The scene was truly awful, for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth." Many of the meteors were observed to leave behind them luminous trains, which... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...hundred lay prostrate on the ground — some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, hut most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell to the earth — East, West, North and South, it was the same— except that the meteors were... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...hundred lay prostrate on Ihe ground ; some speechless, and some uttering the Iiitterest cries, but moat with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth , east, west, north, and south, it was the same !" may rounded with numerous... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...hundred lay prostrate on the ground — some speechless, and some with the biuerest cries, but most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker, than the meteors fell towards the earth ; east, west, north, and south, it was the same t" Since the preceding went... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...hundred lay prostrate on the ground — some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth. East, west, north, and south, it was the same." An observer at Boston compared... | |
 | Philip Tocque - Newfoundland - 1846 - 418 pages
...hundred lay prostrate on the ground; some speechless, and some uttering the bitterest cries, but most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth — east, west, north, and south, it was the same." Meteoric phenomena, nearly... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...one hundred lay prostrate on the ground — some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth ; east, west, north and south, it was the same." This extraordinary spectacle... | |
 | Ira Mayhew - History - 1850 - 476 pages
...one hundred lay prostrate on the ground, some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the...never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth; east, west, north, and south, it was the same." Those harmless meteors, the... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 896 pages
...one hundred lay prostrate on the ground — some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful ; for 11.4,5 "'ТТ. 1C. never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth ; east,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1850 - 344 pages
...hinoli id lay prostrate on the groond — some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, bot most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was troly awfol ; for never did rain fall moch thicker, than the meteors fel? towards the earth ; east,... | |
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