 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - 238 pagine
...ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead cattle, in order to afford some shelter for the remainder of the living ; but they availed very little, for hunger caused them to tear one another with their teeth. The years 1709, and 1772,... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pagine
...that state, instantaneously. About the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford...When the storm abated, on the fourteenth day from its commenccI ment, there was, on many a high! lying farm, not a living sheep to 1 be seen. Large misshapen... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pagine
...a torpid state and died ; and about the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford some shelter for the living ; but the protection was of little service. Impelled by hunger, the sheep were frequently seen... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pagine
...a torpid state and died ; and about the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford some shelter for the living ; but the protection was of little service. Impelled by hunger, the sheep were frequently seen... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - 1876 - 424 pagine
...state, and all that were so affected in the evening died over night. The intensity of the frost would often cut them off when in that state quite instantaneously....for the remainder of the living ; but they availed little, for about the same time they were seen frequently tearing at each other's wool with their teeth.... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - 1876 - 404 pagine
...state, and all that were so affected in the evening died over night. The intensity of the frost would often cut them off when in that state quite instantaneously....for the remainder of the living ; but they availed little, for about the same time they were seen frequently tearing at each other's wool with their teeth.... | |
 | 1849 - 750 pagine
...the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up large semicircular walls of the dead sheep, in order to afford some shelter for the remainder of the living ; this availed but little. When the storm abated, on the fourteenth day, there was, on many a high-lying... | |
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The intensity of the frost wind often cut them off when in that state quite instantaneously. About the ninth and tenth days, the shepherds began to build up huge semicircular walls of their dead, in order to afford some shelter for the remainder of the... 