Word: lava
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this is the hundredth case, the solitary exception to the general run. And herein lies the merit of the story. All the details are so worked out that when we come to the climax, all the actions seem perfectly natural. Under such circumstances, such a man could...