 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord! what can 1 do? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers, and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. 1 have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers, and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 726 pages
...like a spent, with a handkercher To the King's message, fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; hut the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers, and that, for... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...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 bouses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That be needed no more soldiers, and... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - Judges - 1827 - 478 pages
...about his neck. To the King's message,'1 he cried, like a fainting woman, 1 Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down 1 Diary, Vol. ip 425. a That houses should be pulled down. houses, but the fire overtakes us faster... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 456 pages
...neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, the people will not obey me. I have been pulling down...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it:' that he 'needed no more soldiers,' and that • he must go and refresh himself, having been up all... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 452 pages
...cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I atn spent, the people will not obey me. J have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it :' that he ' needed no more soldiers,' and that ' he must go and refresh himself, having been up all... | |
 | English essays - 1831 - 722 pages
...his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, wli.it can I do ? I •ra spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakei us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 512 pages
...spent, with a handkercher about his neck To the king's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord I what can I do? 1 am spent: people will not obey me....but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers, and that, for * St. Laurence Poullney, of which Thomas Elborough was... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...handkerchief 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...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it;' that he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
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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. 
