 | 1849 - 588 Seiten
...should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, "Lord ! what can I do? 1 am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1852 - 334 Seiten
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message,2 he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I do? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been...having been up all night. So he left me, and I him," &c.3 1 Diary, vol. ip 425. 2 That houses should be pulled down. 3 Vol. ip 446. Pepys seems afterwards... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 508 Seiten
...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 obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 Seiten
...the progress of the flames, by pulling down some of the houses ; but he answered, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, people will not obey me. I have been...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." By eight in the morning it had reached London Bridge, " and there dividing, left enough to burn down... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 604 Seiten
...houses ; but he answered, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, people will not obey me. I have Dcen pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." By eight in the morning it had reached London Bridge, " and there dividing, left enough to burn down... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 Seiten
...a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " What can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses too so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | John William Clayton - 1859 - 464 Seiten
...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 obey me. I...houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.J He added, that he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, " he must go and refresh himself,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 Seiten
...a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " What can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have...seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses too so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning,... | |
 | C. J. Swete - 1860 - 298 Seiten
...message he cries like a fainting woman, 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." Pepys then looks after £2,350 of his own, and then cares for the Exchequer money—This is put into... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 Seiten
...mayor, 'looking like a man spent,' with a handkerchief round his neck, cried out : ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it. So he left me and I him, and walked home.' Calm-minded Pepys ! But he was active enough in carrying... | |
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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. 
