| Reginald Robinson Sharpe - 1894 - 678 頁
...flames. " Lord, what can I do ? " he lack-a-daisically exclaimed in answer to a message from the king ; " I " am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...fire overtakes us " faster than we can do it." - The inhabitants were 1 Charles II is said to have been the last Knglish sovereign to occupy rooms in the... | |
| Reginald Robinson Sharpe - 1894 - 674 頁
...flames. " Lord, what can I do ? " he lack-a-daisically exclaimed in answer to a message from the king ; " I " am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...the fire overtakes us " faster than we can do it.'' 2 The inhabitants were 1 Charles II is said to have l)een the last English sovereign to occupy rooms... | |
| Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1072 頁
...resolution. " To the King.s message (to spare no house.1, hut to pull down hefore the fire every way), he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! What can...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " a See the question discussed as to the limits wilhin which this may be done. Pufendorf, Le Droit... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 500 頁
...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 - 1896 - 240 頁
...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 GRKAT FIRE. and refresh himself." I could not wonder at the... | |
| Austin Clare - 1896 - 290 頁
...repeated his words. The Mayor struck his hands together, like a man driven beyond his utmost capacity. " 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."* " But the prisoners, your worship, the... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 644 頁
...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... | |
| Max John Christian Meiklejohn - 1898 - 292 頁
...silly man '), in Cannon Street, ' like a man spent, with a handkerchief round his neck,' and crying like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me.' Nobody tried for some time to quench the fire ; the aim of every man was to save his own goods and... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 頁
...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... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 頁
...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... | |
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