 | 1821 - 712 sider
...naturally bad recount to my hamls to sustain my weight, but the; found no better support : so that I lösk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden «ases, which raised such a dust as kept n« motionless for a quarter of an hour, «iting till it .subsided... | |
 | 1824 - 494 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether anong the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better...again. I could not remove from the place, however, with_ out increasing it, and every step I took I crushed a mummy in some part or other. Once I was... | |
 | 1821 - 514 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian^ it crushed it like a bandbox. I instantly had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better...from the place, however, without increasing it, and pvery step I took I crushed a mummy in some part or other. Once I was conducted through a passage no... | |
 | 1821 - 602 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. 1 could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed... | |
 | 1821 - 766 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, and it crushed like a band- box. 1 naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better...quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. " Thus 1 proceeded from one cave to another, all full of mummies, piled up in various ways, some standing,... | |
 | 1821 - 746 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in... "H 1821 %Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy" Scot u kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from... | |
 | 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 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better...bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dusl as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. 1 could not remove... | |
 | 1821 - 598 sider
...weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I natural]; had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better...of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a<i(M as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. 1 could not remove... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1821 - 292 sider
...recourse to his hands to sustain his weight, but they could find no better support, so that he would sink altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash...rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as sometimes left him motionless a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. BERNARD. — Oh,... | |
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I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk... 
