 ... villages, in 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 whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers,...  The popular history of England - Page 131by Charles Knight - 1861Full view - About this book
 | 1795 - 432 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading, spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were rb!e to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land....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 charity... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land....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 charity... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land....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 charity... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pages
...spears, of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept iato captivity, in an nn- : known and hostile, land. Those who -were able to evade this...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, nhgy: fell into the jaws of famine. , For eighteen months, without intermission,' this destruction... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pin-suing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled lo the walled cities. Bat escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land....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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land....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 charity... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears' of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land....tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from 5re, sword] and exile, th-jy foil into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land....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 charity... | |
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