 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1914 - 614 pages
..." is slight ; the danger is pressing ; your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ? " "I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by...opened to the Turks ; " and at these words he hastily 80 [At 3 o'clock In the morning a breach in the outer wall near the gate of " St. Romanus " had been... | |
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1856 - 352 pages
...asked to return, to the walls, for his wound was but slight, he refused, saying, " No, I will retire by the same road which God has opened to the Turks/' and he hastily passed through ouc of the breaches of the inner walls; by this act of fear, he stained for... | |
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I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, "by the same road which God has opened to the Turks;" and at these words he hastily passed through one of the breaches of the inner wall. By this pusillanimous act, he stained the... 
