Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 394
m the depths below,no matter how far off. Who gave them out, whence they last came, wherethey began, through what agency they crookedly quiv-ered and jerked, scores at a time, over the heads of thecrowd, like a kind of lightning, no eye in the throngcould have told ; but muskets were being… … lay hold of nothing else, set themselves with bleedinghands to force stones and bricks out of their places inwalls. Every pulseand heart in SaintAntoine was onhigh-fever strainand at high-feverheat. Every livingcreature there heldlife as of no ac-count, and was de-mented with a pas-sionate…
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