 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...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." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Esther Meynell - Authors, English - 1909 - 412 pages
...obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' . . . So he left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 482 pages
...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." That he needed no more...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner or means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 pages
...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." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | P. Meadows - London (England) - 1914 - 290 pages
...I do ? I am spent; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down bouses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - London (England) - 1916 - 440 pages
...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.' That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...I have been pulling down houses; but the fire [280 overtakes us faster than we can do it." That be mournfully, Gently and humanly, Not of the stains...Past all dishonor, Death has left on her Only the to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Hutton Webster - History, Modern - 1917 - 414 pages
...do? I am exhausted; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...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," That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...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." That he needed no more soldiers ; and that for himself, he 70 must go and refresh him self, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home,... | |
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That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses,... 
