The imagination shrinks from contemplating the awful scene.

The world of woe may be challenged to exhibit any thing worse.

Fearful, indeed, must be the corruption when man can be capable of such inhumanity to his fellow man.

War unchains the tiger and shows his nature.
Mstislaf, the sovereign, in the midst of the confusion, the uproar and the blood, succeeded almost as by miracle in escaping from the wretched city, basely, however, abandoning his wife and his children to the enemy.

Thus fell Kief.