if the angle of fire were too great the jutting buildings on either side would interfere.

There, he started a great fire and threw his scabbard into the flames.

Here, the Nebel was less of an obstacle, but the great battery positioned on the edge of the village enjoyed a good field of fire across the open ground stretching to the hamlet of Schwennenbach.

During the great fire, hotspots could be seen on satellite images and the haze thus created affected the surrounding countries of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great losses to the Confederate army.

I will rain down on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him: flooding rain, great hailstones, fire and brimstone.

The pancha mahabhuta, or " five great elements ", of Hinduism are kshiti or bhūmi ( earth ), ap or jala ( water ), tejas or agni ( fire ), marut or pavan ( air or wind ), vyom ; or shunya or akash ( aether or void ).

In the Pali literature, the mahabhuta (" great elements ") or catudhatu (" four elements ") are earth, water, fire and air.

New Corinth was rebuilt after a further earthquake in 1928 and again after a great fire in 1933.

alt = Painted scroll of a great fire, with people trying to escape

By 1902, the factory alone became " A great city with its own streets, its own police force, fire department and traffic laws.

The Greek fire was utilized to great effect against the Muslim fleets, helping to repel the Muslims at the first and second Arab sieges of the city.

The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 – 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 – 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".

" began blowing with smiths ’ bellows at a furnace in which there was fire and there came from it a great din.

Even earlier, a kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, ( towards the end of the eighth century BC ) when Odysseus is compared to " a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly.

Not only did his company warn against certain fire hazards, it refused to insure certain buildings where the risk of fire was too great, such as all wooden houses.

On 14 May 1289, a devastating fire wiped out great parts of the inner town, although these were subsequently rebuilt.

In Southeast Asia, in the first millennium, documents of sufficiently great importance were inscribed on soft metallic sheets such as copperplate, softened by refiner's fire and inscribed with a metal stylus.

A great fire burned over a thousand buildings in 1845, but the city rebuilt.

The ability to fire multiple shots before reloading it gave it great value for its time.

All sources agree that before his accession, either in his early childhood or later, members of the royal household witnessed a nimbus of fire about his head while he slept, a sign of divine favour, and a great portent.

The most widely recognized building of the university library is Carolina Rediviva, the " revived Carolina ", thus named in reference to Academia Carolina ( see illustration ), which held the university library from the earliest times until 1691, when it was moved to the upper floor of Gustavianum, where it miraculously survived the great city fire of 1702.

This was used for 400 years until the great fire of 1702 which destroyed large parts of central Uppsala.

In April 1888, a great fire destroyed almost the entire business section of the town.

* Oslo: After a great fire in 1624, it was decided by the then King Christian IV that the city would be moved behind the Akershus fortress.

In 1624 a collection of his Lettres was published, and was received with great favour.

The 1620s were good years for Spanish foreign policy: the war with the Dutch went well, albeit at great expense, culminating in the retaking of the key city of Breda in 1624.

It was in Schmid ’ s library, as he afterwards said, that he found the two books, Kaspar von Barth's compendium Adversariorum libri LX ( 1624 ) and Daniel Georg Morhof's Polyhistor ( 1688 ), which suggested to him the idea of his Bibliothecæ, the kind of works on which his great reputation was ultimately founded.

Oslo: After a great fire in 1624, it was decided by the then King Christian IV that the city would be moved behind the Akershus fortress.

* Catherine ( 1532 – 1624 ) married Gilbert de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour and had issue ; great great grandparents of Anne Geneviève de Lévis ;

* John, the son of Phineas Pett of Chatham, was involved in an ordeal in the beginning of October 1624, when occurred: " a wonderful great storm, through which many ships perished, especially in the Downs, amongst which was riding there the Antelope of His Majesty, being bound for Ireland under the command of Sir Thomas Button, my son John then being a passenger in her.

After a great fire in Oslo during 1624, King Christian IV decided to move the city a few kilometers west to be protected by Akershus Fortress.

The Empress Meishō ( 1624 – 96 ) also had great doubts when she heard about how the Spanish and Portuguese were settling in the New World, and thought that Japan would soon become one of the many countries in their possession.

Thomas Mun's liberal mercantilist treatise England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, written in 1624, but not published until 1664, owes something to the Reason of State, and there is evidence that the great Belgian thinker Justus Lipsius read the Reason of State.

Not only do they break easily, but, being attached to a bit in the horse's sensitive mouth, a great deal of pain can be inflicted if a bridled horse sets back against being tied.

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

Severe damage was inflicted on the Colosseum by the great earthquake in 1349, causing the outer south side, lying on a less stable alluvional terrain, to collapse.

Indeed, on 10 May, before Frederick took the field, Louis XV and the Marshal of France Maurice de Saxe had besieged Tournay, and inflicted upon the relieving army of the Duke of Cumberland the great defeat of Fontenoy.

This inflicted a great damage to Taiwanese causing it to decline.

By now all chance of a reunion between the Liberals and Liberal Unionists had disappeared, and it was no great surprise when leading Liberal Unionists joined Salisbury's new administration in 1895 following the heavy electoral defeat inflicted on the Liberal party.

The defeat of Ath-na-righ was inflicted on Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobuir, whereby Aedh, son of Aedh, was killed therein and Brian of the Doire and a great many of the nobles of Connacht were killed.

The storm inflicted damage on a great many ships in the fleet, with the loss of some 802 men and 146 aircraft.

Greene ordered his army to execute a tactical retreat and left the field to Cornwallis, but inflicted a great loss of men to Cornwallis.

In what become known as the Raid on Le Havre, he bombarded the town for two days and nights, and inflicted great loss of war-material on the enemy.

The engagement was long and bloody ; for though Duncan, by passing through the enemy's line, had prevented their untimely retreat, he had not advanced further in tactical science, and the battle was fought out on the primitive principles of ship against ship, the advantage remaining with those who were the better trained to the great gun exercise, though the Dutch by their obstinate courage inflicted great loss on the Royal navy.

Tongariro eventually won the day, inflicted great wounds on the side of Taranaki, and causing him to flee.

One man was injured but a great deal of damage was inflicted on the castle, which took many years to repair.

: " The racial strife was begun by the Arabs, and rapidly developed into a conflict of great violence between Arabs and Jews, in which the Arab majority, who were generally the aggressors, inflicted most of the casualties.

In nature, only genes have a utility function – to perpetuate their own existence with indifference to great sufferings inflicted upon the organisms they build, exploit and discard.

Her exceptionally notable record of severe damage inflicted on hostile shipping and the gallant fighting spirit of her officers and men reflect great credit upon the United States Naval Service.

Especially serious was the damage inflicted during the great Siege of Smolensk ( 1609 – 11 ).

In all his actions he performed as a great warrior against the people of the Ismailites ; he inflicted multiple disasters on the Saracens.

Later on he was caught and tortured by the Gliders ' Lord Winnowill until Moonshade and the rest of the tribe came to help ; he resisted and recovered from the psychic wounds and torment inflicted by the Black Snake due to his great mental will and strength.

She saved the lives of 38 men from 6 ships in the great storm of November 1877, but the damage inflicted during the rescues led to her retirement.

In his 303rd year of rule, he led a great armada to the Blighted Isle where he inflicted a mighty defeat upon the Druchii: he also found the armour of Aenarion himself and had the great heirloom passed onto the descendants of Morelion, Aenarion's son by his first wife.

The book revolves heavily around the great friendship he experienced with fellow hostage John McCarthy, and the brutality that was inflicted upon them by their captors.