 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was • yell throughout the fleet, 'the fire-ships of Antwerp I the fire-ships of Antwerp !' and in an instant every...largest ships became entangled with each other. Two others were set on fire by the flaming vessels, and were consumed. Medina Sidonia, who had been warned,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1861 - 894 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet — 'The fire-ships of Antwerp, the fire-ships...and frantic attempts were made by each galleon and galleasse to escape what seemed imminent destruction. The confusion was beyond description. Four or... | |
 | English essays - 1861 - 780 pages
...bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet — ' The 6re-ships of Antwerp, the fire-ships of Antwerp !' and in an...and frantic attempts were made by each galleon and galleasse to escape what seemed imminent destruction. The confusion was beyond description. Four or... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1861 - 630 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet — " The fire-ships of Antwerp, the fire-ships...instant every cable was cut, and frantic attempts were mode by each galleon and galeasso to escape what seqmed imminent destruction. The confusion wag beyond... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet — "The fire-ships of Antwerp! the fire-ships...and frantic attempts were made by each galleon and galliass to escape what seemed imminent destruction. The confusion was beyond description. Four or... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1873 - 588 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet—" the fire-ships of Antwerp, the fire-ships of Antwerp!" and in an instant every cable was eut, and frantic attempts were made by each galleon and galeasse to escape what seemed imminent destruction.... | |
 | Elizabeth Spooner - History, Modern - 1876 - 238 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet — " The fire-ships of Antwerp ! the fire-ships...largest ships became entangled with each other. Two others were set on fire by the flaming vessels, and were consumed. Medina-Sidonia, who had been warned,... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet, " The fire-ships of Antwerp ! the fire-ships...or five of the largest ships became entangled with one another. Two others were set on fire by the flaming vessels, and were consumed. 11. Medina Sidonia,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 512 pages
...contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet — " The fireships of Antwerp ! the fire-ships...largest ships became entangled with each other. Two others were set on fire by the flaming vessels and were consumed. Medina Sidonia, who had been warned,... | |
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Farnese as though they had been toys of glass. They knew too that the famous engineer was at that moment in England. In a moment one of those horrible panics which spread with such contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards.... 
