 Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose: she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Side 231redigeret af - 1855Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 488 sider
...leave this place through fear of another Earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns,—that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman still more heroic is come to town on purpose : she says, all her friends are in London, and... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 sider
...Nobility and Gentry who have left, or shall leave, this place through fear of another Earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is,...doors all to-night These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose : she says, all her friends are in London,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 sider
...Nobility and Gentry who have left, or shall leave, this place through fear of another Earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is,...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose : she says, all her friends are in London,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 sider
...Nobility and Gentry who have left, or shall leave, this Place through fear of another Earthquake' Í " Several women have made earthquake gowns ; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night : those are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is to come to town on purpose : she... | |
 | 1842 - 528 sider
...there was a crowd of coaches passing Hyde Park Corner with whole parties removing into the country. "Several women have made earthquake gowns — that...warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These arc of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose ; she says all... | |
 | John Stow - 1842 - 252 sider
...the people of London got frightened about an earthquake in 1750 and 1756, when "several of the women made earthquake gowns, that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all night," while the visitors at Bedford House amused themselves as they returned home by bauling in the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 sider
...nobility and gentry who have left, or shall leave, this place through fear of another earthquake." Several women have made earthquake gowns, that is,...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One * " I remember," says Addison, in the two hundred and fortieth Tatler, " when our whole island... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 324 sider
...parties removing into the country was something like the procession already described to Vauxhall. " Several women have made earthquake gowns — that...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose ; she says all her friends are in London,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 366 sider
...parties removing into the country was something like the procession already described to Vauxhall. " Several women have made earthquake gowns — that...doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose ; she says all her friends are in London,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 362 sider
...like the procession already described to Vauxhall. " Several women have made earthquake gowns—that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose; she says all her friends are in London, and... | |
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