...long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire, was...

...long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder, and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire, was continued...

...secret of the greatest importance ; and for wellnigh four centuries it was unknown to the Mahometans. But at length the composition was discovered by the...noise, while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air. As the fugitives passed the crest of the hill, they saw the seaman, whom we formerly mentioned...

...used by them for repelling the crusaders, and overpowering the Greeks, upon whose side it had atone time been the most formidable implement of defence....noise, •while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air. As the fugitives passed the crest of the hill, they saw the seaman, whom we formerly mentioned...

...side it Lad at one time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration we taiust allow for a barbarous period ; but there seems no...noise, while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air. As the fugitives passed the crest of the hill, they saw the seaman, whom we formerly mentioned...

...secret of the greatest importance ; and for welhiigh four centuries it was unknown to the Mahometans. But at length the composition was discovered by the...noise, while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air. As the fugitives passed the crest of the hill, they saw the seaman, whom we formerly mentioned...

...winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The ue of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the...

...upon whose side it had at one time been * For a full account of the Greek fira, see Gibbon, chapter the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration...fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired 1 lie first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens...

...winged, long-tailed dragon about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' Some very learned authors are of opinion, that allusion is made to this composition...

...progress.* In sieges, it was poured from the ramparts, or launched like our bombs, in red-hot balls of atone or iron, or it was darted in flax twisted round arrows...illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lasearis, but all the crowd whom they influenced, fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired...