 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 532 pages
...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes...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,... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 pages
...some of the houses ; but he answered, " 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." By eight in the morning it had reached London Bridge, " and there dividing, left enough to burn down... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 604 pages
...houses ; but he answered, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, people will not obey me. I have Dcen pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." By eight in the morning it had reached London Bridge, " and there dividing, left enough to burn down... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " What can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes...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,... | |
 | John William Clayton - 1859 - 464 pages
...cried like a fainting woman, ' 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.J He added, that he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, " he must go and refresh himself,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " What can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes...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,... | |
 | C. J. Swete - 1860 - 298 pages
...message he cries like a fainting woman, 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." Pepys then looks after £2,350 of his own, and then cares for the Exchequer money—This is put into... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 pages
...handkerchief round his neck, cried out : ' 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. So he left me and I him, and walked home.' Calm-minded Pepys ! But he was active enough in carrying... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1866 - 528 pages
...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes...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,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 470 pages
...been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it. * St. Laurence Poultncy. That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself,...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. 
