 | Archibald Henry Sayce - 1906 - 612 sider
...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...fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual compound of niter, sulphur, and charcoal effected a new revolution... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 612 sider
...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...fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual compound of niter, sulphur, and charcoal effected a new revolution... | |
 | Arthur Marshall - 1915 - 652 sider
...like a winged long-tailed dragon, 1 Gunpowder and Ammunition, London, 1904. about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity...night was dispelled by this deadly illumination." Nevertheless, the Greek fire on this occasion did very little damage. That men like St. Louis and Joinville,... | |
 | Alexander Findlay - 1916 - 288 sider
...century, we read, a rapidly burning mixture, known as Greek Fire, which " came flying through the air like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness...report of thunder and the velocity of lightning," was used by the inhabitants of Constantinople in their defence of the city against the Saracens. The... | |
 | Edgar Fahs Smith - 1919 - 116 sider
...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;...The use of the Greek, or as it might now be called the Saracen fire, was continued to the middle of the Fourteenth Century, when the scientific or casual... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 sider
...thickness of a hogshead, with the reports of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The...fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual compound of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal effected a new revolution... | |
 | Roger Bacon - 1923 - 108 sider
...fire that "it came flying through the air like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity...night was dispelled by this deadly illumination." While the Greek fire in this case produced considerable horror, there is no record that any real damage... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 876 sider
...'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.' Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 506 sider
...'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.' Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | 1823 - 460 sider
...(Historie de St. Louis,) 'Mike a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder, and the velocity of lightning ;...The use of the Greek, or as it might now be called the Saracen fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual... | |
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It came flying through the air, says Joinville,22 like a winged longtailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. 
