 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904
...It was now taking hold of the great cathedral, which was surrounded by scaffolds for its repair. " The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous...they were forced to stand still, and let the flames bum on, which they did, for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds, also, of smoke... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906
...nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame I The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous...still, and let the flames burn on, which they did, for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds also of smoke were dismal, and reached,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 752 halaman
...houses, and churches, was like a eo hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they...stand still and let the flames burn on, which they 85 did for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke were dismal, and reached... | |
 | 1881
...towers, houses, and churches 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...stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke were dismal, and reached upon... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913
...top of a burning oven, and the light seen above forty miles round-about for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above...still, and let the flames burn on, which they did, for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds also of smoke were dismal, and reached,... | |
 | 1861
...churches, was like an hideous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last no one was able to approach it ; so that they were forced to...still, and let the flames burn on ; which they did for near two miles in length, and one in breadth. Thus I left it this afternoon burning ; a resemblance... | |
 | Elizabeth Montizambert - 1923 - 222 halaman
...Houses, and Churches, was like an hideous storme, and the aire all about so hot and inflam'd that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forc'd to stand still and let ye flames burn on, wch they did for neere two miles in length and one... | |
 | 1851
...terrific grandeur. God grant, (he says,) mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame ! The noise, and cracking...still, and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length, and one in breadth. These calamitous events, however, made but little... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879
...houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the air all about so hot and inflam'd, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forc'd to stand still, and let the flames burn on, wch they did for neere two miles in length and one... | |
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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... 
