 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...flying through the air, says Joinville, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder, and the velocity...continued to the middle of the fourteenth century ; when the scientific, or casual, compound of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal, effected a new revolution... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." ' " Run ! run ! friend Lascaris," said Demetrius, " or you will see more of... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...flying through the air, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and...dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The use of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the more efficient employrtent of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." t Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...is styled by the more early of the French writers. It came flying through the air, says Joinville," like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness...illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it might now be willed, of the Saracen fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century,-' 3 when the scientific... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 438 pages
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illnmination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pages
...early of the French writers. It came flying through the air, says Joinvillc, (History of St. Louit,) like a winged longtailed dragon, about the thickness...deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it may be called, the Saracen fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific... | |
 | Thomas Richardson - 1865 - 652 pages
...: " It came flying through the air like a wing-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hog's head, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the air was dispelled by this deadly illumination." With regard to the modern " Greek fire " used at the... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...Joinville says, came flying through the air like a winged, longtailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity...night was dispelled by this deadly illumination." It is generally considered, however, that " the fire" was composed of naphtha, mingled in certain proportions,... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pages
...flying through the air, says Joinville, like a winged, long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity...deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or as it may now be called, the Saracen, fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the... | |
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like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek or, as it might now be called,... 
