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"Vesuvian" Quotes from Famous Books

... had crept over the good priest. Was it possible that the invalid sinking into eternity in a sunset of sanctity and of heroic penance, formerly the chivalrous captain of Vesuvian fame, was no other than ...

— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly

... stood in Colorado and looked on peaks of snow While prisoned torrents made their moan two thousand feet below: The Simplon pass and prodigies Vesuvian have I done, And gazed in rock-bound Norway upon the midnight sun— Yet at no time such wonderment, such transports filled my breast As when I fixed my orbs upon a Will J. ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... been going," Manelli said. He puffed on his cigar, put it in a nearby ashtray, and blew out a great Vesuvian spout ...

— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett

... "The Vesuvian republic being fixed, I have now to look out for Sicily: but revolutionary principles are so prevalent in the world, that no monarchical government is safe, or sure ...

— The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II (of 2) • James Harrison

... her delicate wrist, Wrought, as Cellini's were at Rome, Out of the tears of the amethyst, And the wan Vesuvian foam. ...

— War Poetry of the South • Various

... unusually good. For once expectation was not to be disappointed—a remarkable fact, when one considers how much dissatisfaction is created, as a rule, in the popular mind, by the shortcomings of eclipses, processions, Vesuvian eruptions, new operas, and other advertised attractions, natural and artificial. The singing was really a success. Miss Tresilyan's magnificent voice did its duty nobly, and did no more. Without overpowering or singling itself out from the others, it lured them on to follow where they could never ...

— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence

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