 ... 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 of function, fathers...  The Competitor - Page 601882Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities. But, escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...to the respect of rant, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, her paroxysm drew towards its close ; Hers was a frenzy...Twelve days and nights ehe withered thus; at last, evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but, escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 590 pages
...to the respect of rank or sacrednnss of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Asia - 1844 - 336 pages
...respect of rank, or the sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities ; but, escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Asia - 1844 - 354 pages
...respect of rank, or the sacrcdness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...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,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 548 pages
...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wive*, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, ami amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to walled cities. But escaping from fire, hword.and exile, they fell into... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...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...drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were EUROPEAN ELOQUENCE. ]73 swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, l, the command and blessing driven and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land.... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...the respect of rank, or sacrcdness of function — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities; but, escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from their children, husbands from wives, — enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities ; but, escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
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