 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...battles or in sieges. It was either poured from the rampart in large boilers, or launched in redhot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil: sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pages
...or in sieges. It was either poured from the rampart in large boilers, or launched in red-hot halis of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imhibed the inflammable oil : sometimes it was deposited in fire-ships, the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pages
...occasionally lent by the Emperors to their allies. " It was," says Gibbon, " either lanched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil." " f At the great festival of fire, called the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...occasionally lent by the Emperors to their allies. " It was," says GIBBOS, "cither launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil." f " At the great festival of fire, called the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...occasionally lent by the Emperors to their allies. "It was," says GIBBON, "either launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil." •f " At the great festival of fire, called... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 326 pages
...occasionally lent by the Em. perors to their allies. ''It was," says Gibhon, '' either laauched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil." Like those wild hirds* thai by the Magians... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...ployed with equal effect by sea and land, in battles or in sieges. It was either poured from the rampart in large boilers, or launched in red hot balls of...darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil. Sometimes it was deposited in fire-ships, the... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 pages
...annoyance of the enemy, it was either poured from the ramparts in large boilers, or launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins twisted round with flax and tow which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil. Sometimes, for a more sweeping destruction, it... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...battles or in sieves It was either poured from the ramparts in large boilers, or launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow -which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil: sometimes it was deposited in fire-ships, the... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...battles or in sieges. It was cither poured from the ramparts in large boilers, or launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with (lax and low which bad deeply imbibed the inllammablu oil: sometimes it wat deposited in fire-ships,... | |
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It was either poured from the rampart in large boilers, or launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil... 
