 | John Adolphus - 1841 - Страниц: 638
...were slaughtered ; " others, 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 whirl" wind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of ': drivers, and the trampling of pursuing... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - Страниц: 410
...from their children, | husbands, from wives', | enveloped in a whirlwind of cav'alry, | and amidsi the goading spears of dri'vers, | and the trampling of pursuing hor'ses, | were sweptf into captiv'ity | in an unknown, and hostile land. | Those who were able to evade this tempest,... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - Страниц: 672
...part were slaughtered; " others, 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 whirl" wind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of " drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - Страниц: 524
...flaming villages, in part, were slaughtered ; others without regard to sex, to age or rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Страниц: 738
...part we» slaughtered : others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rant, or sacredness her foes ; But no one ever heard her speak or shriek,...Twelve days and nights ehe withered thus; at last, The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - Страниц: 484
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - Страниц: 480
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine." In a letter written home to the East India Directors at the close of the year 1780, Sir Eyre Coote... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Страниц: 340
...slaughtered ; others, — without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or the sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - Страниц: 590
...past were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacrednnss of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine." In a letter... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Страниц: 354
...in part were slaughtered ; others, — without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or the sacrcdness of function, — fathers torn from children,...captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were uble to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities ; but, escaping from fire, sword, and exile,... | |
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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... 
