Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in A.D. 79 that buried the ancient city of Pompeii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armstrong unhurt after fall; Menchov retains Giro lead] Reference

At Vesuvius, which is but a hill compared with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

At this moment I raise my eyes to Vesuvius, which is opposite my window, and the blue bay beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference

They actually had a painting there by Andy Warhol called Vesuvius, and a few other interesting works.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

Vesuvius, which is but a hill compared with the Peak of Teneriffe, the diameter of the crater is five times greater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

"In effect, I would call Vesuvius a dormant volcano now," says Dr. Lucia Civetta, head of the official Vesuvius Observatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleeping Monster] Reference

How this name should have become corrupted into "Vesuvius," you can be at no loss to perceive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

The horses came to a crossing, and, terrified anew at a spitting "Vesuvius" ahead, abruptly veered and turned down a side lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference

There's a new Sufjan song called "Vesuvius" on this week's All Songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the "What are you listening to" thread] Reference

"Vesuvius" had a heavy impact, as did the delicate, classic-sounding new tune "Heirloom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Saint-Cloud 'after Hubert Robert, and of' Vesuvius 'after Turner, which were a stage higher in the scale of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

Display of Andy Warhol's print "Vesuvius" and tour Gallery 27 to learn about his influence on the arts. 6 to 9 p.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starbulletin Headlines] Reference

FreeKeene Welcomes our Newest Blogger: Josh "Vesuvius" Kern Source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free State Project - Liberty in Our Lifetime] Reference

A kind of Vesuvius, I must have -- can't be starved, must be fed -- though, pah!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

We left our friends down in the crater of Vesuvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Elysian field, a dissolving view, and a miniature Vesuvius, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

To every visitor to Naples the most prominent object is Vesuvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

The combat takes place, while an eruption of Vesuvius is going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

"Vesuvius is the most studied volcano in the world," he told NEWSWEEK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volcano Fatigue] Reference

Mount Vesuvius rises rather abruptly from the plain on which it stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

More than sixteen hundred years after an eruption of Vesuvius had buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

Vesuvius threw its lava so far that Herculaneum and Pompeii were buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

You will doubtless like to know how Vesuvius looked, after doing so much mischief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

He had the temper of Vesuvius all right-but, hey, that's part of the coaching ethic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coach Fouls Out] Reference

The lavas of Vesuvius are generally of a brown colour, and are also used in the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Since the eruption of A.D. 79, Vesuvius has had many fits of activity with intervals of rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

In these establishments they really seem to deal in nothing but prints and paintings of Vesuvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Large stones have been tossed up by Vesuvius to the estimated height of three thousand six hundred feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Vesuvius in the time of Nero manifested itself by a fearful earthquake, damaging Herculaneum and Pompeii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference

The eruptions of their own Vesuvius are the only things to which the passions of their populace can be compared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Vesuvius smoked continually during the day, and occasionally shot forth lurid flames into the darkness of the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

This mountain, as you will observe from the annexed woodcut, is altogether more massive in its appearance than Vesuvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Vesuvius; gave him five minutes to say his prayers, and then lifted him up in the air and pitched him down to the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

As they knew that the neighborhood of Vesuvius was not always the safest in the world, they all went back at once to search after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

In this interval, however, there was an extraordinary eruption -- not of Vesuvius itself, but at no great distance from it, in the Bay of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference