 | Samuel Pepys - 1885 - 382 pages
...Canning-street, like a 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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 pages
...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 bad been pulling down houses, had been up all night, and weary and distraught, must go home and refresh... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 344 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1888 - 354 pages
...Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handercher 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 been pulling down houses, but the Fire overtakes us faster than we can do it ; that he needed... | |
 | Charles Dorrance Linskill - 1888 - 430 pages
..."like a man spent with a 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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." So he left me,... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 pages
...Bludworth) seems to have 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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." The King and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...Fanning Street, like a 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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...Fanning Street, like a 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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
 | Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1072 pages
...To the King.s message (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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " a See the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 520 pages
...Canning-street, like a 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 obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
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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. 
