 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...strove to burst the door. Holwell, who even in that extremity retained some presence of mind, oifered large bribes to the gaolers. But the answer was, that...the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 528 pages
...recounted by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy. They strove to burst the door. Holwell, who, even in that extremity, retained some presence...the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled e.ich other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 426 pages
...recounted by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy. They strove to burst the door. Holwell, who, even in that extremity, retained some presence...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody awoke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...recounted by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy. They strove to burst the door. Holwell, ] 6Y 1 o v I # T5 ~ wLہ jailers. But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was... | |
 | Great Britain - 290 pages
...could be done without the orders of the nabob, and he was asleep, and might not be disturbed " — then the prisoners went mad with despair — they trampled each other down — they fought, in frenzy, for the places nearest to the window — they struggled, as if for life,... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 742 pages
...by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy ; they strove to burst the door. Holwell, who even in that extremity retained some presence...the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad * Critical and Historical Essays, in., 446, 447. with... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy ; they strove to burst the door. Holwell, who even in that extremity retained some presence...the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy ; they strove to burst the door. Holwell, who even in that extremity retained some presence...the nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for... | |
 | England - 1849 - 822 pages
...by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy ; they strove to burst the door. Holwell, who even in that extremity retained some presence...be done without the nabob's orders ; that the nabob wae asleep, and that he would be augry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy ; they strove to burst the door. Holwell, who even in that extremity retained some presence...the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for... | |
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But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. 
