All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, Zväzok 30Published at the Office, 1873 |
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... French . The first was bad enough , Heaven knows , when the children were dying like flies in autumn , and we were eating the food from the sewers , and we could see the inevitable end approach- ing , through the squabbles and incompe ...
... French . The first was bad enough , Heaven knows , when the children were dying like flies in autumn , and we were eating the food from the sewers , and we could see the inevitable end approach- ing , through the squabbles and incompe ...
Strana 12
... French had promised Hyder aid ; and his son Tippoo's horsemen were already threatening Madras . Against Hyder's countless and fanatic force Sir Hector Munro had hastily gathered together four thousand men , all Hindoos , with the ...
... French had promised Hyder aid ; and his son Tippoo's horsemen were already threatening Madras . Against Hyder's countless and fanatic force Sir Hector Munro had hastily gathered together four thousand men , all Hindoos , with the ...
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... French battery immediately in front , and carried off four guns and a howitzer . In this affair the grenadier company had two lieutenants and thirteen rank and file wounded , and two men killed . The French made a tremendous effort with ...
... French battery immediately in front , and carried off four guns and a howitzer . In this affair the grenadier company had two lieutenants and thirteen rank and file wounded , and two men killed . The French made a tremendous effort with ...
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... French , and form with the other stragglers . In May , 1810 , six companies of the Seventy - first embarked in two frigates from Deal to return to the war . On Octo- ber the 14th of that year the regiment had a turn at the French , and ...
... French , and form with the other stragglers . In May , 1810 , six companies of the Seventy - first embarked in two frigates from Deal to return to the war . On Octo- ber the 14th of that year the regiment had a turn at the French , and ...
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... French brought down their bands on a level piece of ground near the Seventy - first , and the men danced and played football till sunset . The next day the French picked out five regiments of grenadiers to storm the town . " " About ...
... French brought down their bands on a level piece of ground near the Seventy - first , and the men danced and played football till sunset . The next day the French picked out five regiments of grenadiers to storm the town . " " About ...
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Strana 295 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Strana 318 - Wharton afterwards boasted that he had sung a King out of three kingdoms. But in truth the success of Lillibullero was the effect, and not the cause, of that excited state of public feeling which produced the Revolution.
Strana 87 - Greys and Enniskilleners went right at the centre of the Russian cavalry. The space between them was only a few hundred yards; it was scarce enough to let the horses 'gather way,' nor had the men quite space sufficient for the full play of their sword arms.
Strana 317 - I loved a lass, a fair one, As fair as e'er was seen; She was indeed a rare one, Another Sheba Queen: But, fool as then I was, I thought she loved me too: But now, alas! she's left me, Falero, lero, loo!
Strana 87 - Enniskilleners pierced through the dark masses of Russians. The shock was but for a moment. There was a clash of steel and a light play of sword-blades in the air, and then the Greys and the Red-coats disappear in the midst of the shaken and quivering columns. In another moment we see them...
Strana 87 - God help them, they are lost ! " was the exclamation of more than one man, and the thought of many. With unabated fire the noble hearts dashed at their enemy. It was a fight of heroes. The first line of Russians which had been...
Strana 278 - It was not a dark night, and the Prussians were wandering about to plunder (and the scene in Ferdinand, Count Fathom...
Strana 316 - TO all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you — With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Strana 520 - Then shall the infirm persons, one by one, be presented to the queen upon their knees ; and as every one is presented, and while the queen is laying her hands upon them, and putting the gold about their necks, the chaplain that officiates, turning...
Strana 86 - ... very soon lost the combat, for I parried it and cut him down through the head ; so that finished the contest for the eagle. After which I presumed to follow my comrades, eagle and all, but was stopped by the general, saying to me, " You brave fellow, take that to the rear : you have done enough until you get quit of it ;" which I was obliged to do, but with great reluctance.