If this be so, we shall perhaps make a stand in Italy.
Smoke about his summit, just before we reached the Dalles, heralded a smart shock of earthquake there, and no doubt he is the safety-valve of all that region.
They presented a torn and ragged appearance, as if a young earthquake or two had recently broken out there, and this was not materially improved by the long and high flumes then going up.
The last earthquake laid the whole town in ruins and caused considerable loss of life.
The Emperor Trajan[301] was extricated from the town of Antioch by a phantom, which made him go out at a widow, in the midst of that terrible earthquake which overthrew almost all the town.
Perhaps the most violent earthquake which ever visited the United States attended the depression, in 1812, of a region seventy-five miles long and thirty miles wide, near New Madrid, Mo.
The point of origin, or focus, of the earthquake was inferred from subsequent investigations to be a rent in the rocks about twelve miles beneath the surface.
This sudden slip set up an earthquake lasting sixty-five seconds, followed by minor shocks recurring for many days.
An earthquake is transmitted from the focus through the elastic rocks of the crust, as a wave, or series of waves, of compression and rarefaction, much as a sound wave is transmitted through the elastic medium of the air.
Should you expect the velocity of an earthquake to be greater in a peneplain or in a river delta?
The earthquakes which occur from time to time in this region, such as the Inverness earthquake in 1891, are referred to slight slips along this fault plane.
An earthquake in the room would be more apt to improve than to unsettle.
Others get through in three months and ought to go; but it takes an earthquake to get them away.
It is a social earthquake that annually shakes the city.
There was another earthquake at Kar Nicobar in November 1899, when strong, but not alarming, shocks, lasting ten minutes, were experienced.
The Grand Basin was glorious in sunshine, the peaks crystal-clear against a cloudless sky, the huge blocks of ice thrown down by the earthquake and scattered all over the glacier gleamed white in the sunshine, deep-blue in the shadow.
It was necessary to make the traverse high up on this peak instead of around its base, so much had its ice and snow been shattered by the earthquake on the lower portions.
The grand objective point toward which the advance party was working was the earthquake cleavage--a clean, sharp cut in the ice and snow of fifty feet in height.
The earthquake had enormously increased the labor of the ascent; it had not altered the route.
Sidenote: Glacier Movement] It was the realization of the earthquake and of what it had done that convinced us that this Muldrow Glacier has a very slow rate of movement.
Above that point all was smooth, though fearfully steep; below was the confusion the earthquake had wrought.
So down to the foot of the mountain they went, and immediately they reached their base camp this awful earthquake shattered the ridge and showered down bergs on both the upper and lower glaciers.
The earthquake cleavage is plainly shown half-way down the ridge in the background.
Just before we reached the smooth snow slope above the range of the earthquake disturbance lay one of the really dangerous passages of the climb.
There could be no doubt that the earthquake had disrupted this ridge.
The upper glacier also bore plain signs of the earthquake that had shattered the ridge.
The point about one thousand five hundred feet above the gable, where the earthquake cleavage took place, will perhaps remain the crux of the climb.
This is not older than the ninth century, and has been much tampered with, especially in the sixteenth century, after an earthquake, and in the seventeenth century after both earthquake and fire.
You know, senores, in our country the bravest are not ashamed of the fear anearthquake strikes into all the senses of man.
The hotel having survived many hundreds of earthquake shocks, seemed unaware of what had happened.
Only the lamp was still oscillating slightly to prove that the earthquake was not merely a nightmare.
The earthquake and rending of the veil of the temple at the crucifixion.
Earthquake while Paul and Silas were singing praises to God in the stocks at Philippi.
The earthquake precedes thee; blue lightnings march with thy host; famine goes forth on thy right hand, and pestilence on thy left.
That which the earthquake spares, the hand of war and violence pulls down; that which hostile armies have respected, the mean envy of inferior genius will destroy.
An eclipse or an earthquake foretells a great calamity, and the natives are terrified whenever an eclipse takes place.
The first impression of New York, if you stay there not more than 36 hours, which has been my limit for twenty years past, is one of repulsion at the clangor, disorder, and permanent earthquake conditions.
But the earthquakeput an end to the Stanford lectures in April, as the reader will learn more fully.
The earthquake also was a memorable bit of experience, and altogether we have found it mind-enlarging and are very glad we ben there.
Thank you for the Charmes reception and for the earthquake correspondence!
The San Francisco earthquake occurred at about five o'clock in the morning on April 18.
Among the noteworthy events which have occurred since my last, I don't know how I came to forget until the close of my letter two smart shocks of an earthquake to which we were treated a week ago.
But one piece of furniture retained its attitude, and that was the elephantine bedstead, which nothing short of an earthquake could move.
Great earthquake come up one night an' swallowed de whole town an only a few yeahs ago, when de watah was right cleah, yo' could see de tops ob some ob de houses still standin' at de bottom.
They spent most of their time among the islands, that were formed by great rocks which had been cast from the mainland by earthquakeor volcanic action, watching the movements of the Chileans.
This masonry, he thought, must be the remains of ancient Moorish structures which stood there before the great earthquake had shaken up and changed the surface of the country through which the Tagus flows.
Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.
And there were lightnings and voices and an earthquake and great hail.
But the best chronologists prove that the earthquake here spoken of must have been before that time: because Jeroboam the second, under whom Amos prophesied, was dead long before that attempt of Ozias.
But it had been watched agitatedly, and it was evident that that singular loss of nervous balance which is apt to affect all those who go through the slightest earthquake experience was felt by all.
When this shock ceased, the earthquake appeared to have terminated for that time, but even if it had continued, further damage could scarcely have been done, for the little town was reduced to a heap of ruins.
It was while the people of the town were pursuing their enemies that another shock of the earthquake occurred, and it was so violent that many of the pursuers paused, while others turned at once and ran back to the town.
Hold my mule, Larry," whispered Will, throwing the reins to his comrade, and grasping a rifle with which one of his grateful patients who survived the earthquake had presented him.
In this it was stated that "mail advices from Yetapan announced that a terrible earthquakehad occurred in that section of the country.
In short, this earthquake was carried out in a style of lavish completeness, and no expense was spared to make it a record convulsion.
Sometimes she is so lavish with them, and at other times, and with other people, it seems as though it would take an earthquake to force a sentence from her lips.
He assured me that an earthquake was more probable.
You're the modern Nero, playing golf while the earthquake yawns under London.
After I had been in my cave for some time, and found no more shocks of the earthquake follow, I began to be more composed.
It seemed to him, as he watched with every sense alert and tried to its uttermost, that each successive earthquake shock, as it heaved the land, sent a corresponding wave across the sea.
As the shock of the earthquake subsided, and Beauty rallied from his terror, his pace began to slacken.
It was still dark as in a London fog, but the shocks of earthquake were less, fainter and farther apart.
Mr. Lee repeated his consolatory assurance that it was over, and returned to bed, giving way to the natural impulse to lie still which the earthquake seemed to produce.
Yet the Lord was not in the earthquakeand the storm, but in the still small voice.
The force of the earthquake which accompanied it cracked the bed of the fairy lake.
One of the incessant earthquake shocks scattered his fire just as he had got it to burn.
A shock of earthquake sent Beauty with a shiver of terror straight to the open.
Every man," he said, "was off to the hills when my little craft went down beneath the earthquake wave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earthquake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
