 | John Lothrop Motley - 1856 - 686 ページ
...for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity, these means were now applied, and in a brief interval, the City-hall, and other edifices...blaze, and multitudes of human beings were burned with them.f In the City-hall many were consumed, while others leaped from the windows to renew the * Bor,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1858 - 540 ページ
...for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity, these means were now applied, and in a brief interval, the City-hall and other edifices...multitudes of human beings were burned with them. * In the City-hall many were consumed, while others leaped from the windows to renew the combat below.... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1859 - 502 ページ
...purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity, these means were now appued, and in a brief in! terval, the City-hall and other edifices on the square were...most splendid and wealthy quarter of the city, were scon in л blaze, and multitudes of human beings were burned with them.* In the Cityhall many were... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 674 ページ
...town. With great dexterity, these means were now applied, and in a brief interval, the City -hall, and other edifices on the square were in flames. The...blaze, and multitudes of human beings were burned with them.f In the City-hall many were consumed, while others leaped, from the windows to renew the * Bor,... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 ページ
...for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity these means were now employed, and in a brief interval the city-hall, and other edifices...multitudes of human beings were burned with them. In the city-hall many were consumed, while others leapt from the windows to renew the combat below.... | |
 | M A. W - 1883 - 272 ページ
...dexterity these means were now applied, and in a brief interval, the City Hall and other edifices in the square were in flames. The conflagration spread...multitudes of human beings were burned with them.* In the City Hall many were consumed, while others leaped from the windows to renew the combat below.... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1883 - 688 ページ
...for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity, these means were now applied, and in a brief interval, the City-hall, and other edifices on the square were Jn flames. The conflagration sprerul with rapidity, house after house, street after street, taking... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 ページ
...the town. With great dexterity these means were now applied, and in a brief interval the Citys, Hall and other edifices on the square were in flames. The...multitudes of human beings were burned with them. In the City Hall many were consumed, while others leaped from the windows to renew the combat below.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 ページ
...for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity, these means were now applied, and in a brief interval the City-hall and other edifices...square were in flames. The conflagration spread with rapiditv, house after house, street after street, taking fire. Nearly a thousand buildings, in the... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 ページ
...for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity these means were now applied, and in a brief interval the city-hall and other edifices...multitudes of human beings were burned with them. In the city-hall many were consumed, while others leaped from the windows to renew the combat below.... | |
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... difficult to carry the houses by storm, but they were soon set on fire. A large number of sutlers and other varlets had accompanied the Spaniards from the citadel, bringing torches and kindling materials for the express purpose of firing the town.... 
