 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 oldal
...been but a poor creature, for 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." The King and the Duke of York showed themselves better men at this time. They were very active, and... | |
 | Reginald Robinson Sharpe - 1894 - 674 oldal
...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 oldal
...(to spare no house.1, hut to pull down hefore the fire every way), 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.' " a See the question discussed as to the limits wilhin which this may be done. Pufendorf, Le Droit... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1896 - 240 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | Max John Christian Meiklejohn - 1898 - 292 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1899 - 574 oldal
...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... | |
 | Frederic Morell Holmes - 1899 - 200 oldal
...neck. To the King's message [to pull down houses before the fire] 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.' " This is a graphic little picture of the bewilderment of the people ; and Pepys goes on to say that,... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 oldal
...spent, with a handkerchief about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent ', people will not...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... | |
 | James George White - 1904 - 504 oldal
...man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried like a fainting woman, Lord ) what can I do ? I am spent, people will not...me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire over takes us faster than we can do it. They now running out of Cannon Streete (which received goods... | |
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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. 
