In the unquiet condition of vesuvius, in the fact that a great number of visitors were staying in Naples, Betty felt not the least interest.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
vesuvius had not done yet.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The only danger is that you scrape it round-about-ways, when it stirs up a young earthquake in a man's bowells equal to Mount vesuvius on a bust.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith