The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already... Lord Clive - Página 38por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 149 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1840 - 612 páginas
...moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make...made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug.... | |
| 1849 - 792 páginas
...meanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers could make...made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, came forth alive. A pit was instantly dug : the dead bodies, a hundred... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 páginas
...and moanings. The day broke. Thenabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to bo opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make...made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered ono by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 páginas
...moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make...made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. heir oblations on the shrine of St. Thomas. In the...and comfortable doctrines of the Tory creed, those mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug.... | |
| 290 páginas
...— the fate of the captives was made known — the word was given, and the dungeon door was opened. It was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the living, by piling up on either side the corpses of the dead, upon which the burning climate had already... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 páginas
...meanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers could make...made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, came forth alive. A pit was instantly dug : the dead bodies, a hundred... | |
| 1849 - 864 páginas
...moanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers could make...made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, came forth alive. A pit was instantly dug : the dead bodies, a hundred... | |
| 1849 - 822 páginas
...meanings. The day broke The nabob had slept off his debauch, nnd permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers could make...lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heap of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When, at length,... | |
| 1849 - 742 páginas
...meanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers could make...lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heap of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When, at length,... | |
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