I heard of him from the watermen in the wherries, who told me the tale of how he had saved the bridge by pulling down his workshops and drenching the ruins with water.

It seemeth to me that unless some prompt and resolute course of a similar kind is taken tomorrow or tonight, infinite loss must ensue.

No ordinary means can now check this great fire.

But surely the Lord Mayor and his advisers will have by now a plan on foot.
Were I not so weary, and anxious about my wife, I would go forth once more to see what was doing.

But I must wait now for the morrow, and then, pray Heaven all danger may be at an end.