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View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural History - Page 40
by Michael Russell - 1835 - 348 pages
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 91, Part 1

1821 - 712 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and no suoner did the water reach them, than it levelled thum with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, com ; every thing was washed away in an instant, and left the place...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids ...

Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them, than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it; men, women, children, cattle, corn, every thing was washed away in an instant, and left the place where...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 24

1821 - 602 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them, than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, corn ; every thing was washed away in an instant, and left the place...
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Fruits of Enterprize Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia ...

Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1821 - 292 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and the water had no sooner reached them than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it; men, women, children, cattle, corn, every thing was washed away in a moment, and left the place where...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them,, than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, corn ; every thing was washed away in an instant, and left the place...
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Il Conte di Carmagnola: tragedia di Alessandro Manzoni, Milano, 1820 ...

1821 - 598 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them, than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, corn ; every thing was washed away in an instant, and left the place...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 91, Part 1; Volume 129

1821 - 766 pages
...one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them, than it levelled them wilh the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it; men, women, children, cattle, corn ; every thing was washed away in an instant, and left the place...
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Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia ...

Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 256 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and the water had no sooner reached them than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, corn, every thing was washed away in a moment, and left the place where...
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Fruits of Enterprize Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia ...

Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 280 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and the water had no sooner reached them than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, corn, every thing was washed away in a moment, and left the place where...
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The Fruits of Enterprize Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and ...

Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1825 - 282 pages
...stand one instant against the current, and the water had no sooner reached them than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it ; men, women, children, cattle, corn, every thing was washed away in a moment, and left the place where...
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