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... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3051833Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from... | |
| William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from... | |
| Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...slaughtered ; [function, without regard to sea;, to age, or rank, or sacredness of fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped - in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. / But escaping... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...slaughtered ; others without regard to sex, to age or rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading apears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from their children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But, escaping from... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from... | |
| 1851 - 560 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from... | |
| Queen's University of Belfast - Education, Higher - 1852 - 306 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of driven aud to earth, for these I pray to live !' Round his chill babes he wrapped hiť cr hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but, escaping from... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from... | |
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