Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. Soon, flames ignited the wooden beams of the grand palace built by Xerxes.

B. Men and women holding flaming torches aloft raced up and down the palace terraces.

C. When the fire died out, all that remained of the magnificent palace were the stone columns.

D. Looters fought off the heat of the inferno to drag out gold and silver vessels.