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Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of ... - Page 295
by John Timbs - 1855 - 800 pages
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1844 - 490 pages
...about for many nights. God grant 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 flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,...
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The Congregational magazine [formerly The London Christian ..., Volume 9

1845 - 952 pages
...describes. 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...
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Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A ..., Volume 8

Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 pages
...forty miles round for many nights. God grant that 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 the women and children, the hurry of the people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,...
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England in the seventeenth century; or, A history of the reigns of the house ...

England - 1845 - 478 pages
...about for many nights. God grant 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 flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,...
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An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London: With Anecdotes of ..., Volume 2

John Thomas Smith - 1846 - 484 pages
...above forty miles round for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, which now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame. The noise, and cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames ; the shrieking 2s2 of women and children ; the hurrying of people ; the fall of towers, houses, and...
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Daily readings; consisting of devotional reflections on some passage of ...

Edward Feilde - 1847 - 210 pages
...10,000 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 no one was able to approach...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...above forty miles round 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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...round about for ninny nights. God grant my eyes may петег behold the like, now seeing above fO.OOO ere, Nor how to 3« shrieking of womeu and children, the hurry of people, the fall of tower», houses, and churches,...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volume 1

National Sunday school union - 1861 - 306 pages
...smoke extended an equal distance. The noise, and cracklmg, and thunder of the impetuous flames — the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people,...fall of towers, houses, and churches — was like a hideous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last no one was able to approach...
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 8

Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 410 pages
...forty miles round for many nights. God grant that 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 the women and children, the hurry of the people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,...
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