 | London - London (England) - 1851 - 200 pages
...for above forty miles around for many nights ; the noise and cracking 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 last one was not able to approach... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 416 pages
...grant,' exclaims Evelyn, ' that I may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand houses in one flame: the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous fires — the shrieking of women and children — tho hurry of people— the fall of more and more... | |
 | William Bellamy (headmaster of Norwich diocesan model sch.) - Arithmetic - 1853 - 286 pages
...above 10000 honses all in one flame : the noise, and cracking, and thunder of the impetuons flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, honses, and churches, was like an hideons storm; and the air all abont so hot and inflamed, that at... | |
 | charles barker - 1853 - 126 pages
...and gained theirs. 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 of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 444 pages
...says, " God grant that mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous fian.es, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 pages
...houses all in oneltaaie ; the noise and crackling and thunder of the impetuons flames, the shrieking ef women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideons storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able to approach... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...about for many nights. God grant 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Curiosities and wonders - 1855 - 818 pages
...like the top of a burning oven, the light seen above forty miles round about. Above 10,000 houses all in one flame; the noise and cracking and thunder of...and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the air all about so hot and iiiHainM, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...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 so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able to approach... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1855 - 1026 pages
...like the top of a burning oven, the light seen above forty miles round about. Above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, y* shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses and churches, was... | |
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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 of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry... 
