Some began fearfully to sing hymns, and a few to swear freely.

These latter were chiefly carters, whose salutations to each other were mainly oaths, because of the extreme narrowness of the island roads, and sailors to whom profanity was as daily bread.
In St.Heliers, after the first stupefaction, people poured into the streets.

They gathered most where met the Rue d'Driere and the Rue d'Egypte.

Here stood the old prison, and the spot was called the Place du Vier Prison.
Men and women with breakfast still in their mouths mumbled their terror to each other.

A lobster-woman shrieking that the Day of Judgment was come, instinctively straightened her cap, smoothed out her dress of molleton, and put on her sabots.