The Deserts of Southern France: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk Plateaux of Ancient Aquitaine, Volume 2Methuen, 1894 |
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Page 125 - So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords.
Page 157 - In spite of a month's resistance the prince took the place and gave it up as a prey to a mob of reckless plunderers whose excesses were such that Froissart himself, a spectator generally so indifferent and leaning rather to the English, was deeply shocked. "There," said he, "was a great pity, for men, women, and children threw themselves on their knees before the prince, and cried, 'Mercy, gentle sir!