 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1835 - 476 pages
...restored his courage ! " Behold!" he shouted, with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless!...burst forth against the false witness of my accusers!" He stretched his hand on high; over his lofty brow and royal features there came an expression of unutterable... | |
 | 1835 - 280 pages
...the lion with him ! To the lion! (A crash it heard.) Arbaces. Behold ! (Ha raises hit hands on high.) Behold how the Gods protect the guiltless ! The fires of the avenging Orcus, in awful apparition, rise and burst forth against the false witness of my accusers ! (A Jinissues in... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 450 pages
...solemnity and command. " Behold !" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless...the summit of Vesuvius, in the form of a gigantic pine tree * ; the trunk, blackness, — the branches, fire; — a fire that shifted and wavered in... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 508 pages
...solemnity and command. " Behold !" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd ; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless...pine-tree*; the trunk, blackness, — the branches, fire ; — a fire that shifted and wavered in its hues with every moment, now fiercely luminous, now of... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1842 - 462 pages
...solemnity and command. "Behold!" he shouted with a voice of thunder , which stilled the roar of the crowd ; "behold how the gods protect the guiltless...with ineffable dismay, a vast vapour shooting from ihe summit of Vesuvius, in the form of a gigantic pine-tree ;* the trunk, blackness, — the branches,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 348 pages
...solemnity and command. " Behold 1" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd; "behold how the gods protect the guiltless...of my accusers ! " The eyes of the crowd followed tha\ gesture of the Egyptian, and beheld, with ineffable dismay, a vast vapour shooting from the summit... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1867 - 348 pages
...solemnity and command. " Behold !" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless...Egyptian, and beheld, with ineffable dismay, a vast vapor shooting from the summit of Vesuvius, in the form of a gigantic pine-tree ; * the trunk, blackness,—the... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...distance, there shot a pale, meteoric, livid light — it trembled an instant, and was gone. . . . The eyes of the crowd followed the gesture of the...pine-tree ; the trunk, blackness ; the branches, fire ; — a tire that shifted and wavered in its hues with every moment — now fiercely luminous, now... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1883 - 442 pages
...solemnity and command. " Behold ! " he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd ; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless...pine-tree; the trunk, blackness, — the branches, fire ! — a fire that shifted and wavered in its hues with every moment, now fiercely luminous, now of... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1883 - 396 pages
...solemnity and command. "Behold!" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd ; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless...shooting from the summit of Vesuvius, in the form ol a gigantic pine-tree ;* the the trunk, blackness — the branches, fire; a fire that shifted and... | |
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Behold !" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd ; " behold how the gods protect the guiltless ! The fires of the avenging Orcus burst forth against the false witness of my accusers... 
