 | James George White - London (England) - 1904 - 504 pages
..."At last met my Lord Mayor in Cannon Streete like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried like a fainting woman,...me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire over takes us faster than we can do it. They now running out of Cannon Streete (which received goods... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 768 pages
...the lord mayor, and give him this command. In Cannon street he encounters the lord mayor, who cries, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses. He did not want any soldiers. He had been up all night, and must go... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 860 pages
...man spent, with a handkercher about his 1 St. T,awrence Poultney. - Sir Thomas Bludworth. neck. To , and promised to come some other lime, and he would...Castlemaine's, which I could not then see, it being locked up ! That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1906 - 736 pages
...At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman,...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | Alfred John Church - Great Britain - 1906 - 700 pages
...side, so that the fire, having nothing that it could devour, might die out. And what did he answer. ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not...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... | |
 | Lady Alice Frances Lindsay Archer Houblon - Great Britain - 1907 - 454 pages
...a man spent : with a hankercher about his neck,' and how to the King's message to pull down houses, 'he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord, what can I do? I am spent ! people will not obey me.'"4 And so, men bent their minds solely to the saving each man his own goods before the steady advance... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...At last met my lord mayor in Canning street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the king's message he cried, like a fainting woman...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1908 - 938 pages
...resolution. " To the King's message (to spare no houses, but to pull down before the firo every way), he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! What can...obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the firo overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " 2 See the question discussed as to the limits within... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1908 - 960 pages
...resolution. " To the King's message (to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way), ho cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! What can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I havo been pulling down houses ; but the lire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " 2 See the question... | |
 | Esther Meynell - Authors, English - 1909 - 396 pages
...At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman,...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... | |
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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. 
