 | Cornelius Tacitus - Rome - 1811 - 460 pages
...the island. XXX. ON the opposite shore stood the Britons, close embodied, and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild...disorder ; their apparel funereal ; their hair loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 410 pages
...the island. XXX. On the opposite shore stood the Britons, close embodied, and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild...disorder : their apparel funereal ; their hair loose to the wind ; in their hands flaming torches ; and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1836 - 780 pages
...the island. XXX. On the opposite shore stood the Britons, close embodied, and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild...disorder ; their apparel funereal ; their hair loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - Rome - 1842 - 758 pages
...the island. XXX. On the opposite shore stood the Britons, close embodied, and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild...disorder ; their apparel funereal; their hair loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage... | |
 | George Smith - Cassiterite mines and mining - 1863 - 172 pages
...metals were dug out at a little depth, and * This brings to recollection the account of Tacitus : — " Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild...their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage of furies. The Druids were ranged in order, with hands uplifted, invoking the gods and pouring forth horrible... | |
 | Walter Simson - 1865 - 606 pages
...literature which they produce under similar circumons, closely embodied, and prepared f»r action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild...disorder ; their apparel funereal ; their hair loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage... | |
 | Walter Simson, James Simson - Gypsies - 1866 - 606 pages
...the literature which they produce under similar circumons, closely embodied, and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild disorder; their apparel funereal ; their h«ir loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the... | |
 | Archaeology - 1890 - 342 pages
...fanatic priests and a troop of women." " The women," in accordance with their brave Celtic temperament, " were seen rushing through the ranks in wild disorder, their apparel funereal, their hair loose to the winds, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage... | |
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Britons, close embodied and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild disorder, their apparel funereal, their hair loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage of... 