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...fire to the palliasse and bedclothes. The empress and her reader were roused from sleep by the noise and heat of the fire, and making the Sign of the Cross, the fire instantly dropped out. Although the empress was lying on a bed blazing with fire, and the flames burnt fiercely all around her, yet her night clothes were not touched, nor did she suffer any injury whatever...
...nave. Incendiaries set the tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...
...certainly no time for easy credit, but more effective control could be had through allocating resources, which would restrict unnecessary capital outlays, and selective controls over consumer and real estate credit." If the Federal Reserve used its power drastically, it could stop inflation, but it would get its fingers burnt...
...Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day and hour of the Passion, Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
...Burnt Child. In Philadelphia, Clarence J. Malehorn, summoned to testify before a federal grand jury investigating gambling, explained why he did not want to answer several questions: the women on the jury could not be trusted to keep his testimony secret...