 | John Poole, ESQ. - 1838 - 114 pages
...consideration incur the responsibility of inducing you to tempt a region where, should an accident occur—and balloons are but silk, bal-lunatics but men— the...yards from where I was standing), and thence into the street,—and Madame Blanchard was taken up a shattered corpse ! It was supposed that the rockets which... | |
 | 1852 - 390 pages
...the ascent. For a few minutes the balloon was concealed by clouds. Presently it re-appeared, and then was seen a momentary sheet of flame. There was a dreadful...slanting roof of a house in the Rue de Provence (not one hundred yards from where I was standing), and thence into the street — and Madame Blanchard was... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 524 pages
...seconds, the poor creature, enveloped and entangled in the netting of her machine, fell with a (rightful crash upon the slanting roof of a house in the Rue de Provence (not one hundred yards from where I was standing), and thence into the street—and Madame Blanchard was... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1898 - 632 pages
...pause. Then the poor woman, enveloped and entangled in the netting of her machine, fell with an awful crash upon the slanting roof of a house in the Rue de Provence, and thence into the street, where she was taken up, a shattered corpse." Not in the least deterred... | |
 | American literature - 1898 - 880 pages
...pause. Then the poor woman, enveloped and entangled in the netting of her machine, fell with an awful crash upon the slanting roof of a house in the Rue de Provence, and thence into the street, where she was taken up, a shattered corpse." Not in the least deterred... | |
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Presently it re-appeared, and there was seen a momentary sheet of flame. There was a dreadful pause. In a few seconds, the poor creature, enveloped and entangled in the netting of her machine, fell with a frightful crash upon the slanting roof of a house... 