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" But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 247
1849
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 36; Volume 70

English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps and moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 70

1840 - 662 pages
...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...raved, prayed, blasphemed — implored the guards lo fire among them. The gaolers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 65

England - 1849 - 792 pages
...that the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies — raved,prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean time,...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 70

English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted \yith laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 38

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled e.ich other down, fought for the places at the windows,...which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed—implored the guard to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed—implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring Ihe guards to fire among them. The jailers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with...
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The British Friend of India Magazine, and Indian Review, Volume 2

Great Britain - 290 pages
...petitioned their guards to place their muskets to their windows and fire among them. Their dungeon keepers, in the mean time, held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic and impotent struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps and hollow moanings...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65

Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...that the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...At length the tumult died away in low gaspings and moanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened ;...
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Essays, political, historical and miscellaneous, Volume 3

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean...
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