 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...He desired not to be earned below, but be left to die upon deck. The flames soon mastered the ship. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the Orient blew ир. The tremendous... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 276 pages
...ship. Her sides had just been painted ; and the oil-jars, and paint-buckets, were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up. This... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
....sired ' not to be carried below, but to be left to die upon deck.' The flames soon mastered the ship. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock, the L'Orient blew up. The... | |
 | Edward Baines - Europe - 1818 - 582 pages
...wound only a quarter of an hour. Soon after • nine o'clock the Orient struck her colours and CHAP. V. appeared in flames. The fire spread with astonishing...o'clock the ship blew up with a tremendous explosion, whieh was succeeded by a silence not less awful. The firing, as if by common consent, instantly ceased... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...his ship. Her sides had just been painted, and the oil jars and paint-buckets were lying on the poop. By the prodigious, light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being clearly distinguishable. About ton o'clock the ship blew up, with... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...his ship. Her sides had just been painted, and the oil-jars and paint-buckets were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up, with... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 pages
...ship. Her sides had just been painted ; and the oil-jars, and paint-bucket, were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up, with... | |
 | 1836 - 884 pages
...ship. Her sides had just been painted ; and the oil-jars, and paint-bucket, were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up, with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1836 - 480 pages
...ship. Her sides had just been painted ; and the oil-jars, and paint-bucket, were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up, with... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 320 pages
...ship. Her sides had just been painted ; and the oil-jars, and paint-bucket, were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of this conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now be perceived, the colours of both being elearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up, with... | |
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... dead; he had received three wounds, yet would not leave his post; a fourth cut him almost in two. He desired not to be carried below, but to be left to die upon deck. 
