A portion of the "college" of Whittington still remained, and on the site of the present Mercers' Chapel stood a college for the education of priests, whose splendid church remained until the Great Fire.
Except "London stone" and bits of the Old Wall, little more remains to consider among the important landmarks of the city that was nightly locked within the city gates, and which still endures after the Great Fire.
A great fire occurred at Bergen in Norway, when 60 houses and a great many stores were burnt.
Great fire at Constantinople destroyed 400 houses; among which were those of the Greek patriarch, and the patriarch of Jerusalem.
Great fire at Port-au-Prince; 600 houses burnt and property to an immense amount destroyed.
In the time of Kublai Khan the Taoist Buddhists held great festivals to the "High Emperor of the Sombre Heavens" and walked through a great fire barefoot, preceded by their priests bearing images of their gods in their arms.
The "Great Fire" destroys six hundred houses Work commenced on the Croton Aqueduct 1842.
In a quiet place screened by thick bushes Miss Crane made a great fire, with which Ma Terrapin's thick shell was cracked.
The night before the consummation of their marriage, she dreamed that a thunderbolt fell upon her body, which kindled a great fire, whose divided flames dispersed themselves all about, and then were extinguished.
They immediately made a great fire, which so alarmed the enemy that most of them fled, and those that assaulted them were soon routed, and thus they rested securely the remainder of the night.
Deep in the heart of the forest, under the shelter of a ridge of land heavily timbered, a great fire of logs and brushwood was burning; and around it the Indians sat, eating their moose-meat and smoking their pipes.
So without ado we went with him, and were shown into a comfortable room in a wing of the castle, where we found a great fire blazing, and a joint of venison with wheaten loaves on the table.
Farr's token shows an arched rainbow emerging from the clouds of the "great fire," indicating that all was well with him, and the Rainbow still radiant.
He saw the melancholy figure of Hollyhock seated not far from the great fire, and the faithful dogs lying at her feet.
If it was at all cold weather there was a great fire in the ingle-nook, and a girl was sure to be found in the hall playing on the grand piano or on the beautiful organ, or singing in her sweet voice; but now all was deadly silence.
Almost all dwellings are constructed of bamboo and lightest woods, one story high, with screens of paper as partitions: houses of stone are feared, the people preferring to take their chances on a great fire than on an earthquake.
Any one who has watched a great fire in calm weather knows that sparks and smoke do not rise straight up, but in spirals and whirls, the warmer centers rising faster, just as the middle of a stream flows faster than the edge.
The heavens being serene, there was suddenly heard a roar like the noise of a great fire.
Rain was still falling, and the boys decided to build a great fire in the coal heater and sit by it until morning.
Here the lads found themselves, one night, sitting around a great fire on the northern bank of the creek.
Let us hope there won't be a great fire," replied mother, and began to pour out the coffee.
As I raised my head from kissing my mother a Happy New Year, I remarked: "The streets are in a terrible condition for a great fire--are they not?
I answered with another question: "Mary, were you ever in a great fire?
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