 | Max Hastings - History - 1985 - 530 pages
...weakness could be productive of strength, or in the vain hope that amid the crowd each individual might be safe and invisible. From every part of the capital...the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins:... | |
 | Henry Tyrrell - Kievan Rus - 1859 - 574 pages
...weakness could be productive of strength, or in the vain hope that, amid the crowd, each individual might be safe and invisible. From every part of the capital...of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of people, did not suffer a solitary occasion to pass away without reaping from it some personal benefit... | |
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1856 - 352 pages
...of the calamity that overwhelmed them, flocked together in the streets like a herd of timid animals. From every part of the capital they flowed into the Church of St. Sophia, and in the morning, the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries were filled with... | |
 | 1909 - 792 pages
...together in the streets like a herd of timid animals. From every part of the capital people poured into the Church of St. Sophia. In the space of an hour sanctuary, choir, nave and galleries were filled with a multitude of men, women and children, priests,... | |
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... inhabitants flocked together in the streets, like a herd of timid animals, as if accumulated weakness could be productive of strength, or in the vain hope that amid the crowd each individual might be safe and invisible. From every part of the capital... 
