 | Astolphe Louis L. marq. de Custine - 1844 - 582 sivua
...tanks from freezing during the winter by casting in red-hot balls, built themselves huts between me chimneys, took their wives and children there, and...introduced, but this abuse had been corrected before the occurrence of the fire. The Hermitage joins the Winter Palace to the east ; then follows the imperial... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1850 - 462 sivua
...the tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in red-hot balls, built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, which fed on the grass of the roof: it is said that at last some cows were introduced, but this abuse... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1852 - 232 sivua
...the tanks from freezing during the winter by casting in red-hot balls, built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, which fed on the grass of the roof: it is said that at last some cows were introduced, but this abuse... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1855 - 708 sivua
...tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in red-hot balls — built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there,...the flues by which it was heated ; and, though the crown-jewels and much valuable property were saved from the flames, still the destruction of property... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1855 - 695 sivua
...tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in. red-hot balls—built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there,...the flues by which it was heated ; and, though the crown-jewels and much valuable property were saved from the flames, still the destruction of property... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1859 - 448 sivua
...the tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in red-hot balls, built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, which fed on the grass of the roof: it is said that at last some cows were introduced, but this abuse... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1859 - 464 sivua
...huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, which fed on the grass of the roof: it is said that at last som cows were introduced, but this abuse had been corrected before the palace was burnt." Fortunately,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Stoddard - 1891 - 304 sivua
...introduced by servants. Indeed, before the fire, the watchers on the roof built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, which fed on the grass growing on the roof. There is to-day a garden with large trees upon the top... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1896 - 522 sivua
...the tanks from freezing during the winter by casting in red-hot balls—built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there,...introduced, but this abuse had been corrected before the fire occurred. 1 This palace, from whose gate Catherine II. emerged on horseback, crowned with an oak... | |
 | 1854 - 434 sivua
...tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in red-hot balls— built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, who feed on the' grass of the roofs I It is said that at last some cows were introduced, but this abuse... | |
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... the regular inhabitants. For example, the watchmen on the roof, placed there for different purposes — among others to keep the water in the tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in red-hot balls — built themselves huts between the... 