 ... rider in all their terrors. They made no resistance, as, indeed, they had no weapons with which to make it. Every avenue to escape was closed, for the entrance to the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2951847Full view - About this book
 | England - 1847 - 788 pages
...innocent of offence. At last " such was the agony of the survivors nnder the terrible pressure of then- assailants, that a large body of Indians, by their...convulsive struggles, burst through the wall of stone aud dried clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza ! " And the country was covered with... | |
 | Scotland - 1847 - 818 pages
...a shambles. " Even as they fell, in flies they lay," slain in cold blood, and innocent of oifence. At last " such was the agony of the survivors under...flying before the terrible sweep of the Spanish sabre. "TheMarquis," says Pedro Pizarro, " called out, saying, ' Let none wound the Inca, under pain of his... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible...clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza ! It fell, leaving an opening of more than a hundred paces, through which multitudes now found their... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 546 pages
...the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible...clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza ! It fell, leaving an opening of more than a hundred paces, through which multitudes now found their... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible...clay which formed . part of the boundary of the plaza ! It fell, leaving an opening of more than a hundred paces, through which multitudes now found their... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible...clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza ! It fell, leaving an opening of more than a hundred paces, through which multitudes now found their... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pages
...the square was closed up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible...dried clay which formed part of the boundary of the p!a."a! It fell leaving an opening of more than a hundred paces, through which multitudes now found... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the earvirors under the terrible pressure of their assailants, that...clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza ! It fell, leaving an opening of more than a hundred paces, through which multitudes now fonnd their... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 350 pages
...the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible...that a large body of Indians, by their convulsive strug1 " Vlsto csto por el frayle y lo poco que apr over.haban sus palabras, toiuo su lihro, y abajo... | |
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