 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 pages
...aspect, like the 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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Belgravia - 1866 - 552 pages
...grant,' says good Mr. Evelyn, ' that mine eyes may never see 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,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1867 - 232 pages
...aspect, like the 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,... | |
 | 1867 - 494 pages
...above forty miles round 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 of tho impetuous flames, ye shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 pages
...o'clock the fire had reached London Bridge. The tremendous event is finely described by Evelyn in bis Diary, wherein he tells us that it made the atmosphere...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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 pages
...London Bridge. The tremendous event is finely described by Evelyn in his Diary, wherein he tells ns that it made the atmosphere as light as day " for...and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, yc shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches,... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pages
...eyes may never ' see the like ! 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, was like a hideous storm ; and the air ' about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not ' able to approach... | |
 | 1868 - 396 pages
...ten thousand houses all in one flame. The noise and crackling thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, — all made a noise like a hideous storm; and the air was so hot and inflamed, that at hist no one... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1869 - 588 pages
...forty miles round about for many nights. God grant that mine eyes may never see 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,... | |
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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... 
