 | Frederic Morell Holmes - 1899 - 200 頁
...spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message [to pull down houses before the fire] he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " This is a graphic little picture of the bewilderment of the people ; and Pepys goes on to say that,... | |
 | 1899 - 574 頁
...about ' with a handkercher about his neck, cried out like a fainting woman to the king's message — Lord what can I do, I am spent, people will not obey...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it ! ' It was evident if the fire did not reach Chancery Lane 'before Thursday' it would not be thanks... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 頁
...my Lord Biudworth. 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... | |
 | 1901 - 660 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 408 頁
...At last met my lord mayor in Cannon 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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 頁
...Pepys " met my Lord Mayor in Cannon Street like a man spent, with a handkerchief about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman,...houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can doit;' that he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 頁
...last met my Lord Mayor in Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkerchief 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... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1903 - 584 頁
...At last met ye 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... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 458 頁
...At last met my Lord Mayor in Fanning 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... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 頁
...Fanning Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he ciied, like a fainting woman, " Lord, what can I do ? I am...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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Lord! what can 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. 
