Protection Against Fires: And the Best Means of Putting Out Fires in Cities, Towns, and Villages, with Practical Suggestions for the Security of Life and PropertyHurd and Houghton, 1873 - 278 Seiten |
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... great buildings were in flames , and a conflagration was imminent . The " little one had become a thousand , " and although a few minutes before it could have been smothered with a blanket , or dashed out with a few 1 CHAPTER PAGE.
... great buildings were in flames , and a conflagration was imminent . The " little one had become a thousand , " and although a few minutes before it could have been smothered with a blanket , or dashed out with a few 1 CHAPTER PAGE.
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... become panic - stricken when we should be more than ever self - possessed . It should be the duty of some person in every town to give the cause of fires , why they were not at once put out , how large or small they were when first seen ...
... become panic - stricken when we should be more than ever self - possessed . It should be the duty of some person in every town to give the cause of fires , why they were not at once put out , how large or small they were when first seen ...
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... become almost obsolete . Many an awful fire , the news of which has been sent over the land , would have been dashed out without loss by some man or woman , boy or girl , if proper and efficient means for doing it were at hand , and it ...
... become almost obsolete . Many an awful fire , the news of which has been sent over the land , would have been dashed out without loss by some man or woman , boy or girl , if proper and efficient means for doing it were at hand , and it ...
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... become a conflagration , and as at Portland , Chicago , and Bos- ton , acquired a power which the engines cannot control . No one who reads this chapter can fail to per- ceive that the means by which buildings may take fire have been ...
... become a conflagration , and as at Portland , Chicago , and Bos- ton , acquired a power which the engines cannot control . No one who reads this chapter can fail to per- ceive that the means by which buildings may take fire have been ...
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... become serious enough for us to wish to employ the best weapons against it . The second doubt is , Would the small engines be worked efficiently ? Would not those who have them be confused , excited , or terror - stricken , as people ...
... become serious enough for us to wish to employ the best weapons against it . The second doubt is , Would the small engines be worked efficiently ? Would not those who have them be confused , excited , or terror - stricken , as people ...
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Seite 71 - And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying: " Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
Seite 231 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Seite 221 - The poor inhabitants were dispersed about St. George's Fields and Moorfields, as far as Highgate, and several miles in circle, some under tents, some under miserable huts and hovels, many without a rag, or any necessary utensils, bed, or board; who, from delicateness, riches, and easy accommodations in stately and well- furnished houses, were now reduced to extremest misery and poverty.
Seite 230 - Soon as dined, I and Moone away and walked through the City, the streets full of nothing but people and horses and carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one another, and removing goods from one burned house to another.
Seite 225 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
Seite 218 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...
Seite 224 - ... from falling on some of those nations whom they casually met, without sense or reason. The clamour and peril grew so excessive that it made the whole court amazed, and they did with infinite pains and great difficulty reduce and appease the people...
Seite 226 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off ; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire...
Seite 232 - ... goods, and prepare for their removal ; and did by moonshine (it being brave dry and moonshine and warm weather) carry much of my goods into the garden, and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money and iron chests into my cellar, as thinking that the safest place. And got my bags of gold into my office, ready to carry away, and my chief papers of accounts also there, and my tallies into a box by themselves.
Seite 225 - Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and the other...