 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...villages, in part were slaughtered — others, without regard 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 exigence, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex t» age, to 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex to -age, to rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to N the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...flaming milages, in part, were slaughtered, others, without regard to sex, to age, to rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those.who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled c'ties. But escaping from fire, sword,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...they fell into the jaws of famine. 35 out regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands...pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an 45 struction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an 40 unknown and hostile land. Those, who were able to...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For eighteen months, without intermission, this de45 struction raged from the gates of Madras to the... | |
 | 1830 - 426 pages
...part were slaughtered ; mothers, 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. • • * * " For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...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. For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...sex, to age, LO the respect of rank, or sacrediiess of function ; fathers torn from children, husbaude o pass au unknown nnd hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ;... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 360 pages
...junction, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amid the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of...swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Repetition requires shade. He said unto THEM, he put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.... | |
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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... 
