 | English literature - 1822 - 850 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire...matches, which they concealed under their cloaks, set on fire as many houses to windward as they could, which was easily done, in consequence of the combustible... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire...they were built. This, together with the violence of the wind, rendered every effort to extinguish the fire ineffectual. I myself narrowly escaped with... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire...they were built. This, together with the violence of the wind, rendered every effort to extinguish the |ire ineffectual. I myself narrowly escaped with... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1822 - 334 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out upon horsehack, and gave direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire...miscreants, hired for that purpose, dispersed themselves in diil'erent parts of the town, and with matches which they concealed under their cloaks, set fire to... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 852 pages
...different parts of the town, and with matches, which they concealed under their cloaks, set on fire as many houses to windward as they could, which was easily done, in consequence of the combustible material* of which they were built. This, together with the violence of the wind, rendered every effort... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 572 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire...they were built. This, together with the violence of the wind, rendered every effort to extinguish the fire inr effectual. I myself narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1832 - 586 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning, a violent wind arose, and the fire...miscreants, hired for that purpose, dispersed themselves iu different parts of the town, and with matches, which they concealed under their cloaks, set fire... | |
 | William Hazlitt - France - 1852 - 434 pages
...The next morning a viaKnTwind arose, and the fire spread with the greatest rapidity. StSmeTiundred miscreants, hired for that purpose, dispersed themselves...they were built. This, together with the violence of the wind, rendered every effort to extinguish the fire ineffectual. " I myself narrowly escaped with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - France - 1852 - 442 pages
...afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out upon horseback, and gave directions to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire...their cloaks, set fire to as many houses to windward ae they could, which was easily done, in consequence of the combustible materials of which they were... | |
 | 1855 - 570 pages
...afraid that it might gain Opon m, I "eut out ii]K>n horseback, and gave direction lo extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire spread with the (freutest rapidity. Some hundred miscreants, hired for tiiat purpose, dispersed thi'msehes in different... | |
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I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire spread with the greatest rapidity. Some hundred miscreants, hired for that purpose, dispersed themselves in different parts of the... 
