Amidst the din of different cries was heard the clank of chains, from the galley slaves, who were employed in saving that city which served them for a prison.

The different nations of the Levant, which commerce draws to Ancona, expressed their fear by the stupor which appeared in their looks.

The merchants, on beholding their warehouses in flames, entirely lost their presence of mind.

Alarm for the loss of fortune affects the common order of men as much as the fear of death, and does not inspire that energy of the soul, that enthusiasm which brings resources to our aid.
The cries of sailors have always something doleful and prolonged in them, and were now rendered still more so by terror.

The mariners on the shores of the Adriatic are clad in a red and brown hooded cloak of most singular appearance, and from the midst of this vestment emerged the animated countenances of the Italians, painting fear in a thousand shapes.