Unit 3: Part 3 Vocabulary I

Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke’s, where we mighty merry and supped, and very late I by water to Woolwich, in great apprehensions of an ague....

Then, on the other side, my finding that though the bill in general is abated, yet the city within the walls is increased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our house there.

So I down to the waterside, and there got a boat and through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire.

Having stayed, and in an hour’s time seen the fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavoring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the steel yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the city; and everything, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even the very stones of churches...

When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the city, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.

And got my bags of gold into my office, ready to carry away, and my chief papers of accounts also there, and my tallies into a box by themselves.

In the first place the woeful experience in this late heavy visitation hath sufficiently convinced all men of the pernicious consequences which have attended the building with Timber, and even with Stone itself, and the notable benefit of Brick, which in so many places hath resisted and even extinguished the Fire...

And we do therefore declare Our express Will and Pleasure, That no man whatsoever shall presume to erect any House or Building, great or small, but of Brick or Stone, and if any man shall do the contrary, the next Magistrate shall forthwith cause it to be pulled down.

...all other eminent and notorious Streets, shall be of such a breadth, as may with God’s blessing prevent the mischief that one side may suffer if the other be on fire.

...all other eminent and notorious Streets, shall be of such a breadth, as may with God’s blessing prevent the mischief that one side may suffer if the other be on fire.

...nor will we suffer any Lanes or Alleys to be erected, but where upon mature deliberation the same shall be found absolutely necessary.

Tears and lamentations were seen almost in every house, especially in the first part of the visitation; for toward the latter end men’s hearts were hardened, and death was so always before their eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for the loss of their friends, expecting that themselves should be summoned the next hour....

But after some time that order was more necessary, for people that were infected and near their end, and delirious also, would run to those pits, wrapped in blankets or rugs, and throw themselves in, and, as they said, bury themselves.

His discourse had shocked my resolution a little, and I stood wavering for a good while, but just at that interval I saw two links come over from the end of the Minories, and heard the bellman, and then appeared a dead cart, as they called it, coming over the streets; so I could no longer resist my desire of seeing it, and went in.

He mourned heartily, as it was easy to see, but with a kind of masculine grief that could not give itself vent by tears; and calmly defying the buriers to let him alone, said he would only see the bodies thrown in and go away, so they left importuning him.

...there was no other way of burials, neither was it possible there should, for coffins were not to be had for the prodigious numbers that fell in such a calamity as this.

Congestion—whether on the roads, on the Underground, on the buses or on the trains—is the scourge of London's current transport system.

The scheme directly tackles four key transport priorities for London:
• making the distribution of goods and services more reliable, sustainable and efficient.

Reduced traffic delays, improved journey time reliability, reduced waiting time at bus stops and lower fuel consumption resulting from congestion charging all have economic benefits which are increasingly being recognised.

Reduced traffic delays, improved journey time reliability, reduced waiting time at bus stops and lower fuel consumption resulting from congestion charging all have economic benefits which are increasingly being recognised.

When you synthesize ideas and make logical connections, you combine related ideas from various texts, noting where they reinforce or build on one another, to support a conclusion.