I remember noticing the distress of a pair of robins during the violent earthquake of the year 1872, when the pines of the Valley, with strange movements, flapped and waved their branches, and beetling rock-brows came thundering down to the meadows in tremendous avalanches.

His entrance was preceded by the most severe earthquake the capital had known in years.

[Sidenote:24] While he was staying in Antioch, a dreadful earthquake occurred.

"There was some talk, at first, of an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, destroying the dam, but Panama has not been visited by a destructive earthquake in so long that the danger need not be considered.

Smoke by day, and flame by nightor probably that light reflected from below which is often mistaken for flame in volcanic eruptionshave been seen again and again above the crater; and the awful earthquake of 1843 proves that his capacity for mischief is unabated.

According to him, with a terrific earthquake, clouds of ashes were driven into the air with violent detonations from a mountain situated at the eastern end of the island.

Frequent earthquakes oscillated the landscape.

in the world that Nature hath wrought, and I neuer saw any thing so hard to be beleeued as this, to wit, the great increasing and diminishing of the water there at one push or instant, and the horrible earthquake and great noyse that the said Macareo maketh where it commeth.

And if anyone should object that the last upheaval may have been effected suddenly by a few tremendous earthquakes, we must answerWe have no proof of it.

But again, suppose that instead of squeezing these broken and folded lines together any more, you took off the pressure right and left, and pressed them upwards from below, by a mimic earthquake.

During and after the memorable earthquake, the city of Puerto Cabello, at that time held by the Patriots, was under the command of a young colonel in the Republican service, who had devoted a portion of his immense patrimonial wealth to the culture of his intellectual powers in European travel, (not, however, without subsequently applying a large share to the necessities of his country,) and whose name was Simon Bolívar.

The mountain then is shaken by a fearful earthquake; but Jehovah is not in the earthquake.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (8,500), a large and numerous group in the north of the Malay archipelago, between the China Sea and the Pacific, of which the largest, Luzon, and the next Mindanao, are both much greater than Ireland; are mountainous and volcanic, subject to eruptions and continuous earthquakes.

[Sidenote:4] In the days of Antoninus also a most frightful earthquake is said to have occurred in the region of Bithynia and the Hellespont.

At this moment a sudden and violent earthquake was felt through all the extensive scene.

It was they who moved the country, shaking its torpor like successive earthquakes.

Incessant earthquakes destroy whole streets of houses, but no one takes the trouble to rebuild them, and the population was once nearly double what it now is40,000.

This Crosse in times past did by their report of the Island, hang in the ayre, but by a certaine earthquake, the crosse and the chappeil it hung in, were ouerthrowen, so that neuer since it would hang againe in the aire.

Hence many wolves and owls were seen in the City itself and continual earthquakes with bellowings took place, fire shot down from the west to the east, and other fires burned both the temple of Quirinus and a second.

He supposes this to have been emitted from some distant earthquake or volcano.

[Sidenote:28] While he was on the way an extraordinary earthquake occurred, so that one might have thought the whole world was breaking apart and all the spirits of those murdered by him were leaping up to assail him.

General Soublette and General Bolivar were both present at the last fatal earthquake in Caraccas, and they both assert that this, of which I have now given a description, was at least as powerful, although the suffering in the town of Caraccas was much greater; and they attribute the happy escape of thousands of lives to the difference in the construction of houses in the two places.

This is a gay household now, and Dilsy cannot face me without a fleshly earthquake of laughter that I have become such a high-tempered tiger about punctual meals.

" [Singing; his voice appearing to come from the cellar, and suggesting the first low warnings of an approaching earthquake.

But when the book had been considered there was a literary earthquake!