A Plot to Burn London: a Revelation and a Warning for the Times |
Common terms and phrases
action advantage alarm apparatus arranged best chance Blackfriars block blow Bridge British Museum Buckingham Palace BURN LONDON capitalists catastrophe chapel Christmas Day citizens City Clapham Junction clerical commence concluding speech conflagration conspirators course crowded danger desirable diabolical difficulty disguise door duty Eastern districts effectually Embankment England English envelope excitement execution fact favour Fenians Finsbury Square Fire Brigade fire engines flagration Fleet Street following pages forces Gospel Workers hand Holborn ignite immediately opposite important despatch Irish kettle know already lamp is lighted large hotels lodging-houses Lord Mayor's banquet matter Meanwhile meeting metropolis misery movement necessary neighbour neighbourhood numbering object once petroleum pillage plot plunder police reader remains rich riot rumour Salisbury screw-driver secure selected shops shut side Society of Gospel spirit lamp Strand strategic point suspicion Terminus Thames thoroughfares tion troops verbatim volcano warn whilst York Road