 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 Seiten
...was like an hideous storm, and the -air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it; so that they were forced to stand...it this afternoon burning, a resemblance of Sodom or the last day. London was, but is no more! 5th. It crossed towards Whitehall; oh the confusion there... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 Seiten
...was like an hideous storm, and the air all about so hot, and inflam'd, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still and let ye flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke... | |
 | Joseph W. Bird - 1873 - 294 Seiten
...this afternoon burning, a resemblance of Sodom, or the last day. . . . London was, but is no more." They were " forced to stand still and let the flames burn on." The only means for throwing water upon the fire were buckets (for the enEVELYN'S DIARY. 219 gines were... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 Seiten
...was like an hideous storm, and the air all .about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it; so that they were forced to stand...smoke were dismal, and reached, upon computation, nearly fifty miles in length. Thus I left it this afternoon burning, a resemblance of Sodom, or the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 504 Seiten
...like a hideous storm ; and tho air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still, and let the flames burn on, Burning of Newgate , Old St. Paul'i in the background. which they did, for near two miles in length... | |
 | John Edwin Nixon - 1874 - 142 Seiten
...approach it24 : so that they were forced29 to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did29 for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke were dismal, and9 reached, upon computation12, near fifty miles in length. Thus I left it this afternoon buruiug,... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 Seiten
...about во hot and inflam'd that at the last one was not able to approch it, so that they were forc'd to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for neere two miles in length and one in bredth. The clowds also of smoke were dismall, and reach'd upon... | |
 | John Edwin Nixon - 1874 - 148 Seiten
...so hot and inflamed, that 45 at last one was not able to approach it": so that they were forced 29 to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did 22 for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke were dismal, and 2 reached,... | |
 | William Basil Jones - 1875 - 994 Seiten
...— was like a hideous storm, and the air about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it ; so that they were forced to stand...did for near two miles in length and one in breadth. Tims I left it that afternoon burning, a resemblance of Sodom or the last day. Thus it continued its... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1875 - 384 Seiten
...was like a hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able fa approach it ; so that they were forced to stand still...for near two miles in length and one in breadth." Evetyn't Diary. Few believed this dreadful fire to have been accidental, and many circumstances concurred... | |
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The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was... 
