 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 314 páginas
...!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Kebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 588 páginas
..." cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed ! " echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 266 páginas
...Shakespeare. 15. I'll look no more, — Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 16. Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace —...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place. Browniny. 17. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride to sink at last.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1868
...; Behind shnt the postern, the lights sank to rost, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. ii. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing onr place ; I tnrned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrnp, and set the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847
...speed!" cried the watch, as the gate bolts undrew; " Speed!" echoed the wall to ug galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. ii. in. 'Twaa moonset at starting; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869
...!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting... | |
 | Frederick Martin - 1869
...come to a place we wished to avoid above all others — a barrack full of Cossacks. CHAPTER XXII. " Not a word to each other : we kept the great pace,...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." BKOWNINO, Bide from Ghent to Aix, WE were not more tlian a dozen steps from the men, who issued forth... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 396 páginas
...' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; ' Speed ! ' echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast." HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO All. Browning, " Away ! — away ! — and on we dash... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 382 páginas
...!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; ' Speed !' echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and made the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870
...speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Nock by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths... | |
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I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; 
