| Jane Anne Winscom - 1861 - 466 páginas
...sight thus : — " God grant that my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise, and cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames ; the shrieking of women and children ; the hurry of people ; the fall of towers, houses, and churches,... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 páginas
...for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder...hideous storme, and the aire all about so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able to approach it. They were forc'd to stand still and let flames... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 páginas
...behold the like ! The noise, cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm, and the air all about was so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able to approach... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 páginas
...thousand houses all in one flame ; the noise and crackling and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people,...the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm, and the air all about was so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach... | |
| 1864 - 884 páginas
...never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses j all in one flame : the noise, and crackling, and thunder of the impetuous flames, ye shrieking...houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme." But why continue to quote ? Let the reader go for himself to Evelyn's powerful narrative. It is sufficient... | |
| Charles Selby - 1864 - 374 páginas
...one flame; the noisu and erackling and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women und children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able to approach... | |
| Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 páginas
...scaffolds for its repair. Evelyn says : " The noise and crackling and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people,...the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach... | |
| 1865 - 976 páginas
...surrounded with scafiblding for its repair. The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, were like a hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not... | |
| Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 páginas
...top of a burning oven, the light seen above forty miles round about. Above ten thousand houses all in one flame ; the noise, and cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,... | |
| Joseph Hughes - 1866 - 332 páginas
...10,000 houses all in one fiame ; the noise, and crackling, and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people,...towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last, one was not able to approach it,... | |
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