 | 1918 - 500 pages
...message he creed, 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. (Auf die tätigkeit wird mit emphase hingewiesen: Ich habe ja hänser niedergerissen.) Meredith, Tragic... | |
 | Walter George Bell - 1920 - 468 pages
...Vestry Minutes, 1666. 1 Henry Bennet Lord Arlington had been appointed Secretary of State in 1662. faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire." None of the populace who had seen the flames speeding along by the... | |
 | Malcolm Charles Salaman - 1920 - 186 pages
...crying in response to the King's message, " 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." The pencil of a Hogarth only could have done justice to the cruel irony of that Lord Mayor's impotence.... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1923 - 366 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 do it." People all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...message he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I ree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's...over with gold dust divine, And the locust-flesh means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 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,... | |
 | Lady Frances Parthenope Verney - 1925 - 602 pages
...fainting woman to the king's message — 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 I ' It was evident if the fire did not reach Chancery Lane ' before Thursday ' it would not be thanks... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 652 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,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 1258 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,... | |
 | Cyril Edward Robinson - 1928 - 966 pages
...about with a handkerchief round his neck, crying, "Lord, what can I do? The people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." For five days the fire held the mastery. It was a terrible and majestic sight. Showers of "fire-balls,"... | |
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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. 
