Houses were falling, telegraph and telephone poles were tumbling into the streets, and the picture of desolation was complete, while German soldiers were looting among the ruins.
It was calculated that about nine hundred houses were more or less damaged and about sixty houses destroyed.
Hearing shrieks from the inhabitants of our streets, I rushed to the window and saw that several houses were already in flames.
The ordinary post and store-houses were to be established along it.
Store-houses were built, provisions were collected in them, and the royal road was constructed, with a series of forts throughout.
In the snowy wildernesses and plains, shelter-houses were built, where travellers could take refuge from the cold and rain.
Houses were demolished, swept from their foundations and carried in the flood to a culvert near the town.
Houses were picked up as if they were but a feather, and their inmates were all carried away with them, while cries of 'God help me!
For ten minutes nothing but moving houses were seen, and then the waters came with a roar and a rush.
Orphan-Houses were opened, in which was found 10s.
The towers were overthrown, the walls battered to pieces; the interior of the place was all exposed, houses were demolished, and many people slain.
Houses were unroofed, the walls and battlements of fortresses shaken, and lofty towers rocked to their foundations.
Two leper-houses were rivals in point of antiquity, namely, Rochester and Harbledown, both founded before 1100.
If leper-houses were empty, the fact is largely accounted for by the mismanagement and poverty of charitable institutions at that period.
On this account the boxes in the Orphan-Houses were opened, but only 1s.
The boxes in the Orphan-Houses were opened, but only 1s.
In the evening the boxes at the GirlsÂ’ and Infant-Orphan-Houses were opened, and in them was found 3l.
Houses were crumbling, the atmosphere darkening, the storm increasing.
At Carbondale, the dreaded funnel appeared, and two blocks of houses were unroofed.
The boxes in the Orphan-Houses were opened, in which 16s.
The boxes at the Orphan-Houses were opened (our need leading us to do so) in winch was found 10l.
The boxes in the Orphan-Houses were opened, in which 5s.
This afternoon the boxes in the Orphan-Houses were opened, but only 10s.
Nobody under the rank of knight was to carry arms in the streets: no one was to walk about the street after nine at night: houses were not to be built over streets.
Houses were erected in course of time along the Bridge on either side like a street, but with intervals; and along the roadway in the middle were chain posts to protect the passengers.
The gin-houses were burned, the bridges ruined, mills and factories gone, and the roads impassable.
Anonymous warnings were sent to the obnoxious individuals, houses were burned, notices were posted at night in public places and on the doors of persons who had incurred the hostility of the League.
Houses were searched, mattresses were cut to pieces, trunks, bureaus, wardrobes, and chests were broken open and their contents turned out.
These pastilles were carried by them in bags, and in this way about 130 houses were destroyed in the main street.
When the big flood came the houses were picked up like pasteboard boxes or collapsed like egg-shells.
Nearly every street in the place was overflowed, and in many cases occupants of houses were driven to the upper floors for safety.
The neat farm-houses were ornamented by creeping vines, and tiny flower-gardens in their fronts.
All along this finely shaded road neat farm-houses were to be seen, but no domestic cattle.
Rows of tea-houses were frequently in sight, extending occasionally into a village or town of considerable dimensions, and filled with an active population.
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