How To Use Vesuvius In A Sentence
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It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
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Pompeii was a sexual hothouse, but the bordellos (which numbered about 25 when Vesuvius erupted) were the least sensual thing about the place.
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Pompeii was buried - although not, as we now know, destroyed - when the nearby, supposedly extinct, volcano Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, covering the town and its inhabitants in many tons of pumice and volcanic ash.
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Afghanite occurs as small, typically colorless transparent crystals associated with a wide variety of feldspathoids in volcanic ejecta collected in the general Mount Vesuvius area, Italy.
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running hot;" and, before we could dismount, the axle-box of a truck became a young Vesuvius in the matter of vomiting smoke.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2
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He says that toadstone appears to be the same rock that is called whinstone in Scotland, and Mandelstein by the Germans, and it is quite similar to the lavas that have been brought back from Vesuvius.
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In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
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In the distance stood Vesuvius, still a sleeping volcano in those days, its hills green with pine and beech trees, its orchards overflowing with apples and with grapes that made wine good enough for a senators table; its soil teeming with hares, dormice, and moles that the locals favored as hors doeuvres.
The Spartacus War
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His pictorial curiosity was however not matched by a preoccupation with naturalistic fidelity: several replicas of this painting exist in which he varies even the shape and size of the cone of Vesuvius.
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He flew over smoking Mt. Vesuvius and brought his wife and mother cameos carved from its lava.
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Mount Vesuvius' eruption buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in volcanic ash and lapilli, preserving it in its current ghost-town-like state.
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Pliny the Elder lost his life while visiting Vesuvius during an eruption.
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More than 80 Vesuvius eruptions were listed in a recent worldwide directory of volcanic activity.
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The most privileged of his guests walked with him to the top of Vesuvius to absorb his intimate knowledge of vulcanology in general and Vesuvius in particular, about which he was the acknowledged expert.
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It is found with realgar in gypsum at the Boccheggiano and Niccioletta mines and the Tognetti quarry, Seravezza, Tuscany, as well as in the fumaroles of Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, Italy.
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_ -- We have been driving along the Strada Nuova in L**'s britschka, whence we had a fine view of Vesuvius.
The Diary of an Ennuyée
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Altintash, resembling the white lachryma of Vesuvius, but neither so strong nor so highly flavoured.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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Vesuvius erupts once in a while
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It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
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A Vesuvius of spittle and sweat, with lips aquiver and eyes bugged-out, Fleck's devo-esque performance provides him with a sweat-lodge purge and us with a fascinating look at faulty-idol worship that pre-dates, by a couple of decades, Michael Jackson.
James Scarborough: Mad Women, The Skylight Theatre, Los Feliz
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In other words, what interests them are not explosive climaxes, where phrases erupt and spew forth Vesuvius-like, but something more quiescent, thoughtful and indeed, implosive.
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(This was what she called Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius.) ‘It does the lemons and grapes good.’
The Pink Fairy Book
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Non Aetna, non Vesuvius tantis ardoribus aestuant, ac juveniles medullae vino plenae, addit
Anatomy of Melancholy
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May 29 — Stage 19: Avellino to Vesuvius, 164 kilometers (101.91 miles).
2009 Giro d'Italia results
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The Romans invented concrete, mixed from pozzolana, a volcanic ash mined on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which forms a natural cement when combined with lime.
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She heard the first song end and Emily found herself fingering along to ‘Vesuvius’ as the band played.
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Nella herself (that's Italian pizza pro Nella Grassano) oversees a menu stacked with traditional pizzas such as margherita and funghi as well as specialties such as the Vesuvius, two rounds of pizza dough stacked atop each other with toppings placed between them so that the top pie peaks and releases smoke during baking.
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It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
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We soon left behind the ominous cone of Vesuvius, reported by the best judges to be at present in so unsound a state that nothing can prevent its early fall; sunset left us near the grand precipices of Anacapri, and morning found us with Ustica on our beam, and the semicircle of mountains which enchase the gem of Palermo gradually unfolding their beauties.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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Driving up the side of Vesuvius, through the switchback bends, the houses thinned and gave way to pine forest; then the pine forest thinned and gave way to scrub.
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Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that grew within the breached crater of Monte Somma volcano.
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Attlee conducts us on a latterday grand tour that takes in, among many other places, Turner's Thames, Basho's Japan, Pliny's Vesuvius and Rudolf Hess's solitary cell in Spandau prison.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
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“running hot;” and, before we could dismount, the axle-box of a truck became a young Vesuvius in the matter of vomiting smoke.
The Land of Midian
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We lack quantitative sedimentological and structural data on the Somma-Vesuvius debris avalanches, but we can make some interpretations regarding their rheology.
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Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that grew within the breached crater of Monte Somma volcano.
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Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
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It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
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At the heart of this human tragedy is Vesuvius.
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They marched to the beautiful country at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, which was then a harmless mountain clothed with chestnut woods, with spaces opening between, where farms and vineyards rejoiced in the sunshine and the fresh breezes of the lovely blue bay that lay stretched beneath.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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An earthquake in ad 62 caused serious damage, while the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August ad 79 overwhelmed the whole town.
