 | Wilhelmina Martha James - 1874 - 342 oldal
...together, like a man driven beyond his utmost capacity. "Lord! what can I do?" he asked, helplessly. " I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." * " But the prisoners, your worship, the prisoners," returned Gibbons, impatiently ; " could they not... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1876 - 846 oldal
...with a handkerchief about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lordl what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey...he needed no more soldiers ; and that for himself, be must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me and I him, and walked home... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1876 - 622 oldal
...with a handkerchief about his neck. To the K.ing's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord I what can I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me....do it." That he needed no more soldiers ; and that fur himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me and I him, and... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1880 - 330 oldal
...been but a poor creature ; and when he heard the King's message, " he cried like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." On the 4th inst. there seemed to be little hope of saving the Navy Office, unless some extraordinary... | |
 | Camilla Crosland, Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1880 - 324 oldal
...about his neck." When Pepys gave him the King's orders he seemed quite overpowered and exclaimed, " What can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." The poor Lord Mayor was evidently at his wit's end, and quite knocked up, for he had not been to bed... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1880 - 474 oldal
...and Cannon Street, where they saw the Lord Mayor like a man spent and out of his wits, who said — "Lord, what can I do? I am spent, people will not obey me. I have pulled down houses, but this fire overtakes us before we can do anything." Off he went to refresh himself,... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 oldal
...him this command. In Cannon-street he encounters the lord-mayor, who cries, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses. He did not want any soldiers. He had been up all night, and must go... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 oldal
...instructions. In Cannon Street he encountered the dazed and terrified magistrate, who exclaimed : " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses, had been up all night, and weary and distraught, must go home and... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 344 oldal
...pull them down everywhere before the fire/ he cried out ' like a fainting woman,' as Pepys recounts, ' Lord ! what can I do? I am spent; people will not obey me.' Meanwhile, great bodies of the citizens of all classes had been at work ; some upon the cumbrous engines,... | |
 | Charles Dorrance Linskill - 1888 - 430 oldal
...handkercher about his neck," who, when he heard the king's message, " cried like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I do? I am spent. People will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." So he left me, and I him " Pepys goes on, and walked home, gazing at the distracted people, not forgetting... | |
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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. 
