Soon we heard a challenge-trumpet Sounding in the Pass below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe ; Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the hounds in summer, When they scent the stately... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 5381843Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| United States. War Department - 1881 - 844 páginas
...courage, and endurance worthy only of the cause engaged in, and for more than fifty hours they lay there panting like the hounds in summer when they scent the stately deer, eager not for revenge, but to teach again the minions of the tyrant that Missouri shall be free. The... | |
| Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 páginas
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| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 páginas
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the braehen, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...summer, When they scent the stately deer. From the dark deBle emerging, Next wo saw the squadrons come, Leslie's foot and Leven's troopers Marching to the... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1883 - 338 páginas
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe ; Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches. O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
| Ward Marcus and co, ltd - 1883 - 264 páginas
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...hounds in summer, When they scent the stately deer. Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly,... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 páginas
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1885 - 378 páginas
...Sounding in the Pass helow, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the hracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near,...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of hirches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 páginas
...Wordsworth, and by Prof. Aytoun. BATTLE SKETCH OF KILLIECRANKIE. Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...and Leven's troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Thro' the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly,... | |
| 1887 - 410 páginas
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe: Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...the stately deer. From the dark, defile emerging, Marching to the tuck of drum; Through the scattered wood of birches, Next we saw the squadrons come,... | |
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