The Light Brigade in Spain: Or, The Last Fight of Sir John MooreG. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 - 410 Seiten |
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... XXXIII PALAFOX THE NAME • 381 Chapter XXXIV DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Chapter XXXV . 389 DOOM 394 Chapter XXXVI SERGEANT WILKES WANTS TO KNOW Glossary of Spanish Words . 404 • 415 List of Illustrations Plate I Page THE 95TH CHARGE HOME 12.
... XXXIII PALAFOX THE NAME • 381 Chapter XXXIV DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Chapter XXXV . 389 DOOM 394 Chapter XXXVI SERGEANT WILKES WANTS TO KNOW Glossary of Spanish Words . 404 • 415 List of Illustrations Plate I Page THE 95TH CHARGE HOME 12.
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... Tell me that ! What have you got to show for ' em , eh ? -that's what I want to know . Here are we , without a stiver to our name , no pay for weeks , and no chance of seeing any . And look at this : here's a boot for you ; that's what ...
... Tell me that ! What have you got to show for ' em , eh ? -that's what I want to know . Here are we , without a stiver to our name , no pay for weeks , and no chance of seeing any . And look at this : here's a boot for you ; that's what ...
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... Tell me that ! Here we've been in Salamanky a matter of fourteen days , but we ain't seen none of them . There's plenty of you Dons about , sure enough , but you don't look to me like fighting - men . Where are you hiding ' em ? -that's ...
... Tell me that ! Here we've been in Salamanky a matter of fourteen days , but we ain't seen none of them . There's plenty of you Dons about , sure enough , but you don't look to me like fighting - men . Where are you hiding ' em ? -that's ...
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... tell us all about it . I hope the mischief has gone no deeper than your clothes . " And then the little alderman unfolded his pitiful story . It appeared that he had gone round his premises in the rain , to see that all was safely ...
... tell us all about it . I hope the mischief has gone no deeper than your clothes . " And then the little alderman unfolded his pitiful story . It appeared that he had gone round his premises in the rain , to see that all was safely ...
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... tells me that Mr. Carlos Vawn , who has of late arrived at this city , is on the point of leaving for Madrid , and will ... tell him , and that is in the six words — mark you— Palafox the Man , Palafox the Name . I beg you commit these ...
... tells me that Mr. Carlos Vawn , who has of late arrived at this city , is on the point of leaving for Madrid , and will ... tell him , and that is in the six words — mark you— Palafox the Man , Palafox the Name . I beg you commit these ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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...