...awful: " the firing immediately ceased on both sides, and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling...which they had been exploded." It is upon record, we are reminded, that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake. Such an event...

...awful : " the firing immediately ceased on both sides, and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling...which they had been exploded." It is upon record, we are reminded, that a battle between two armies was once broken oil" by an earthquake. Such an event...

...ceased on both sides, and the first sound whicjn broke the portentous stillness was the dash of the shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been cast by tho explosion. About seventy of the crew of the Orient were saved by the English boats, and...

...awful : the firing immediately ceased on both sides ; and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling...from the vast height to which they had been exploded. About seventy of the Orient's crew were saved by the English boats. Among the many hundreds who perished...

...awful : " the firing immediately ceased on both sides, and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling...which they had been exploded." It is upon record, we are reminded, that a battle between two amides was once broken off by an earthquake. Such an event...

...pause not less awful. The firing immediately ceased; and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling...water from the vast height to which they had been projected by the explosion. The combat recommenced with the ships to leeward of the centre, and continued...

...awful ; the firing immediately ceased on both sides ; and the first sound that broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling...water from the vast height to which they had been discharged. It is upon record, that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake...

...firing ceased on both sides, and the first sound which broke the silence, was the dash of her shattered yards falling into the water from the vast height...event would be felt like a miracle; but no incident in human war, produced by human means, has ever equalled the sublimity of this consentaneous pause and...

...formal subject, anticipating the real subject, the infinitive phrase — 'to walk on the grass '. ' It is upon record that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake ' : ' it ' is prospective, looking forward to the noun clause — ' that a battle . . earthquake'....

...sentence, or a sentence introduced by that : It is disgraceful to steal. It is certain that he is alive. It is upon record, that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake. — Gibbon. It is excellent To have a giant's strength : but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant....