 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 pages
...stiled by the more early of the French writers.) ' It came flying tlirough die air,' says Joinvaie, « like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thtmdcr, and thevelocity of lightening, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 pages
...report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and that the darkness of the night was dispelled by its deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or as it...fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual discovery of gunpowder, effected a revolution in the art of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...flying through the air, says Joinville, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder, and the velocity...fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century ; when the scientific, or casual, compound of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal, effected a new... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 364 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." ' Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 500 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...flying through the air, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and...night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The ue of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the more efficient employment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 328 pages
...like a winged, long-tailed dragon about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' Some very learned authors are of opinion, that allusion is made to this composition in the legend which... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 484 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
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It came flying through the air, says Joinville,22 like a winged longtailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. 
