 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord, what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 páginas
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord, what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord, what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Reginald Robinson Sharpe - 1894 - 674 páginas
...flames. " Lord, what can I do ? " he lack-a-daisically exclaimed in answer to a message from the king ; " I " am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...the fire overtakes us " faster than we can do it.'' 2 The inhabitants were 1 Charles II is said to have l)een the last English sovereign to occupy rooms... | |
 | Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1072 páginas
...house.1, hut to pull down hefore the fire every way), he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! What can I do? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " a See the question discussed as to the limits wilhin which this may be done. Pufendorf, Le Droit... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 500 páginas
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1896 - 240 páginas
...fire, having nothing that it could devour, might die out. And what did he answer. ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." And so all that he did was to go home THE GRKAT FIRE. and refresh himself." I could not wonder at the... | |
 | Austin Clare - 1896 - 290 páginas
...repeated his words. The Mayor struck his hands together, like a man driven beyond his utmost capacity. " I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down bouses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it."* " But the prisoners, your worship, the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 644 páginas
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 páginas
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
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Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it. 
