 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 408 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,... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 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 us faster than we can doit;' that he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1903 - 584 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,... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 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...left me, and I him, and walked home; seeing people almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses too so very thick thereabouts,... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 458 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. After a while of rest, during which he and his guests had "an extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1905 - 860 pages
...message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I locked up ! means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1906 - 736 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...home ; seeing people all almost distracted, and no 1 St. Lawrence Poultney, of which Thomas Elborough was curate. a Sir Thomas Bludworth. See soth June,... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1906 - 700 pages
...might die out. And what did he answer. ' 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.' And so all that he did was to go home THE GREAT FIRE. and refresh himself." I could not wonder at the... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 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,... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1909 - 412 pages
...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 ; 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. 
