A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness... The advanced grammar of school-grammars - Página 144por C. Duxbury - 1884 - 264 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 páginas
...function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped ¡na whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in fin unknown und hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities,... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 páginas
...others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers lorn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 páginas
...function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of...fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.96 36 The reader will Bad it intereating to compare this passage with the most eloquent one... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 páginas
...rank', or sacredness of function — I fathers torn from their chil'dren, | husbands, from wives', I enveloped in a whirlwind of cav'alry, | and amidst...trampling of pursuing hor'ses, were swept into captiv'ity I in an unknown, and hostile land. I Those who were able to evade this tempest, | fled to the walled... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 páginas
...flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn...from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 páginas
...their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For months together these creatures of suffering, whose very excess and luxHISTORY OF EUROPE. гну... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 páginas
...their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For months together these creatures of suffering, whose very excess and luxV. HISTORY OF EUROPE. toy... | |
| Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 páginas
...flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. • " The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done... | |
| Peter Burke - 1854 - 346 páginas
...of rank, or sacredness of function,—fathers torn from children, husbands from wives,—'enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. " The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1855 - 520 páginas
...flying from their flaming villages, in part, were slaughtered ; others without regard to sex, to age or rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from...in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spear? of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and... | |
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