 Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2361825Full view - About this book
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 452 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running...water-side to another. And among other things, the poor pidgeons, I perceived, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconys,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...but there was a pair of virginals in it." Pepys's observing eye noticed also that the " poor pigeons were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they burned their wings and fell down.'' In the afternoon Pepys is on the " water again,... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1846 - 484 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running...the water-side to another. And among other things I perceived the poor pigeons were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies,... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...into the river, or into lighters that lay off; the poor staying in their houses till the fire actually touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering...from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another. Some poor pigeons who were loath to quit their little homes, hovered about the windows and balconies... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 506 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters that lay oflf; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running...another. And, among other things, the poor pigeons, T perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconys, till they... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 504 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stall's, by the waterside, to another. And, among other things, the poor pigeons, I perceive, were... | |
 | 1857 - 498 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters, that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running...things the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to learc their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies, till they burned their wings and fell... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off ; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running...leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they burned their wings, and fell down. Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off ; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running...leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they burned their wings, and fell down. Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the... | |
 | C. J. Swete - 1860 - 298 pages
...little Michell and our Sarah on the bridge." Among other things how he describes " the poor pigeons loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconys until they burnt their wings and fell down." And the poor people, like these forlorn birds, still clinging... | |
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