The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches, half smothered in its oppressive atmosphere, gave us little opportunity for investigation) was small,... Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools - Seite 40von Edwin Mims - 1910 - 440 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1914 - 396 Seiten
...atmosphere, gave us little opportunity for investigation) was small, damp, and entirely without means 15 of admission for light; lying, at great depth, immediately...in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep, and in later days as a place of deposit for powder, or some 20 other highly combustible... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1914 - 398 Seiten
...body 10 having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...investigation) was small, damp, and entirely without means 15 of admission for light; lying, at great depth, immediately beneath that portion of the building... | |
| Lemuel Arthur Pittenger - 1914 - 306 Seiten
...body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...oppressive atmosphere, gave us little opportunity for inves25 tigation) was small, damp, and entirely without means of admission for light; lying, at great... | |
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 Seiten
...body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. 10 The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...admission for light; lying, at great depth, immediately 15 beneath that portion of the building in which was my own sleeping apartment. It had been used, apparently,... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 Seiten
...body having been encofltned, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep, and, in later days, as a place of deposit for powder, or some other highly combustible... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...apartment. It had been used, apparently, in remote feudal tunes, for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep, and, in later days, as a place of deposit for powder,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 786 Seiten
...body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep; and in later days as a place of deposit for powder, or some other highly combustible substance,... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1917 - 554 Seiten
...body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a donjon keep, and in later days as a place of deposit for powder, or some other highly combustible substance,... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1917 - 550 Seiten
...body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches,...in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a donjon keep, and in later days as a place of deposit for powder, or some other highly combustible substance,... | |
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