 | 1840 - 612 pages
...the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled...the guards to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims.... | |
 | 1840 - 662 pages
...the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled...raved, prayed, blasphemed — implored the guards lo fire among them. The gaolers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter... | |
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...the nabob's orders ; that the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled...cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies — raved,prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean time,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pages
...would be angry if any body awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled e.ich other down, fought for the places at the windows,...which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed—implored the guard to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled...which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed—implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody awoke him. Then le thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts...as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring Ihe guards to fire among them. The jailers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with... | |
 | 290 pages
...place their muskets to their windows and fire among them. Their dungeon keepers, in the mean time, held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic and impotent struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps and hollow moanings... | |
 | 1849 - 864 pages
...the nabob's orders ; that the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled...the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean time, held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of the victims.... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...the nabob's orders ; that the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled...the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean time, held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of the victims.... | |
 | 1849 - 742 pages
...angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad * Critical and Historical Essays, in., 446, 447. with despair. They trampled each other down, fought...the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean time, held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of the victims.... | |
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But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the... 
