The Light Brigade in Spain: Or, The Last Fight of Sir John MooreG. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 - 410 Seiten |
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... keep My own true - love - from- " 999 The quotation remained unfinished , for Jack laid Shirley on his back and sat on him . The knock was repeated again and again , with increasing loudness ; the door was rattled with ever - growing ...
... keep My own true - love - from- " 999 The quotation remained unfinished , for Jack laid Shirley on his back and sat on him . The knock was repeated again and again , with increasing loudness ; the door was rattled with ever - growing ...
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... keep still , and never ceased from ob- jurgating some person unknown . Dugdale had stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth to stifle his laughter , and Smith was thumping Shirley vigorously on the back . After some minutes ' scraping with ...
... keep still , and never ceased from ob- jurgating some person unknown . Dugdale had stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth to stifle his laughter , and Smith was thumping Shirley vigorously on the back . After some minutes ' scraping with ...
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... keep , and tells him to make a barber of him . Bless you , next day the varmint turns up again , and we can't shake him off nohow . If a ' goes away for a day , back a ' comes the next , as perky as a Jack - in - the - box . 39 " A sort ...
... keep , and tells him to make a barber of him . Bless you , next day the varmint turns up again , and we can't shake him off nohow . If a ' goes away for a day , back a ' comes the next , as perky as a Jack - in - the - box . 39 " A sort ...
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... keep you late . " " I must first go and give a coin to the boy who showed me the way here — a little gipsy fellow who said he knew you . " Pepito ! Let me deal with him , Mr. Vaughan ; he has an extraordinary knack of turning up just ...
... keep you late . " " I must first go and give a coin to the boy who showed me the way here — a little gipsy fellow who said he knew you . " Pepito ! Let me deal with him , Mr. Vaughan ; he has an extraordinary knack of turning up just ...
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... keep us short of sup- plies , and shorter still of news . I do know that a fort- night ago General Blake's Spanish army in the north was beaten , and now a Mr. Vaughan has brought me news that General Castaños has been routed at Tudela ...
... keep us short of sup- plies , and shorter still of news . I do know that a fort- night ago General Blake's Spanish army in the north was beaten , and now a Mr. Vaughan has brought me news that General Castaños has been routed at Tudela ...
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afrancesado Antonio army asked Astorga attack barricade Bembibre British Calatayud Captain O'Hare Cariñena Casa Alvarez Casa Vega cavalry Colonel commissary Corporal Wilkes Corunna Coso cried dark despatch Don Casimir Don Cristobal Don Fernan Don Miguel door dragoons Dugdale enemy escape eyes face fell fight fire followed French Frenchman Giles Grampus guerrilleros guns hand head heard hombre hope horse hour Jack's José Juanita La Romana lady landlord letter looked Lumsden Marshal Lannes Miguel Priego miles minutes monsieur mule musket night officers Padre Consolacion Paget Palafox passed Pepito Pomeroy quarter regiment ride road rode round ruins rush Salamanca Santa Engracia Santiago Sass Saragossa Señor Señorita sentry shouted side siege Sir John Moore smile soldiers Soult sound Spain Spaniards Spanish stood street tell Tio Jorge Tobar troopers turned Valdepeñas Valladolid Vallejo voice wall word yards
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 187 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 187 - well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with "me.
Seite 8 - I can possibly avoid it, for there is none other that I like so much, and none else so much deserves it ; for we were the light regiment of the Light Division, and fired the first and last shot in almost every battle, siege, and skirmish, in which the army was engaged during the war.
Seite 161 - And if the enemy are in possession of Bembibre, which I believe, they have got a rare prize. They have taken or cut to pieces many hundred drunken British cowards — for none but unprincipled cowards would get drunk in the presence, nay in the very sight of the enemies of their country: and sooner than survive the disgrace of such infamous conduct, I hope that the first cannon-ball fired by the enemy may take me in the head...
Seite 8 - ... and I love them as I hope to do my better half, (when I come to be divided.) Wherever we were, they were ; and although the nature of our arm generally gave us more employment in the way of skirmishing, yet, whenever it came to a pinch, independent of a suitable mixture of them among us, we had only to look behind to see a line, in which we might place a degree of confidence, almost equal to our hopes in Heaven ; nor were we ever disappointed...