 | Henry Hart Milman - St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) - 1869 - 588 pages
...lamentation ; running • Pepys, vol. ii. pp. 439-449. THE FIRE. 367 about like distracted creatures, without attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them, so that it burned both in breadth and length, the churches, public halls, Exchange, hospitals, monuments,... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1870 - 788 pages
...hardly stirr'd to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or scene but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at...attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation-there was upon them, so as it burned both in breadth and length, the Churches, Public... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1871 - 328 pages
...hardly stirred to quench it ; so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at...such a strange consternation there was upon them, so as it burned, both in breadth and length, the churches, public halls, Exchange, hospitals, monuments,... | |
 | Alfred L. Sewell - Chicago (Ill.) - 1871 - 108 pages
...hardly strived to quench it, so that there was nothing hearde or scene but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at...goods, such a strange consternation there was upon them — so, as it burned both in length and breadth, the churches, public halls, Exchange, hospitals, monuments,... | |
 | Elias Colbert, Everett Chamberlin - Chicago (Ill.) - 1872 - 570 pages
...hardly strived to quench it, so that there was nothing hearde or scene but crying out and lamentation; running about like distracted creatures, without at...such a strange consternation there was upon them; so, as it burned, both in length and breadth, the churches, public halls, Exchange, hospitals, monuments,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 460 pages
...hardly stirred to quench it ; so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at...save even their goods ; such a strange consternation was there upon them." The Lord Mayor, moreover, on whose energy and presence of mind so much depended,... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 252 pages
...hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing seen or heard but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at...goods, such a strange consternation there was upon them ; so as it burned both in breadth and length, the churches, public halls, exchange, hospitals, monuments... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all at tempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them, so as it burned both in breadth and length, the churches, public halls, exchange, hospitals, monuments,... | |
 | Joseph W. Bird - Fire prevention - 1873 - 294 pages
...hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures without at...such a strange consternation there was upon them, so as it burned both in breadth and length, the churches, public halls, Exchange, hospitals, monuments,... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...hardly stirr'd to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods, snch a strange consternation there was upon them, so as it burned both in breadth and length, the churches,... | |
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I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange... 
