... deprived of the light of day, as well as of fresh air; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine1858Full view - About this book
| John Knox Laughton - Admirals - 1899 - 536 pages
...miserable distempered wretches, suspended in rows, huddled one on another, and deprived of the light of day as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid streams exhaling from their own diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 562 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noi ome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 566 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noi ome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured... | |
| William Wood - History - 1904 - 408 pages
...miserable distempered wretches, suspended in rows, huddled one on another, and deprived of the light of day as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid streams exhaling from their own diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - Fiction - 1908 - 514 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another that not more than fourteen inches of space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding, and deprived of the...atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every... | |
| Horace West Household - Great Britain - 1917 - 210 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that no more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every... | |
| Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - Ocean in literature, English - 1921 - 444 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere ..... ; devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them ; and destitute of every convenience... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1925 - 330 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vermin j hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every convenience necessary for people... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Impressment - 1925 - 308 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the light of day, as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling... | |
| Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches of space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding; and deprived of the...steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodirs, devoured with vermm hatched m rhe filth that surrounded them" (Roderick Random, 149l. And,... | |
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