Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130W. Blackwood & Sons, 1881 |
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... fire . How the bullets did whiz and fly ! I had come back from the koppie , now no longer wanted , and stood on a little plateau facing the Dutch , with the fort in rear , from which the men , running to their places , began to fire ...
... fire . How the bullets did whiz and fly ! I had come back from the koppie , now no longer wanted , and stood on a little plateau facing the Dutch , with the fort in rear , from which the men , running to their places , began to fire ...
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... fire , bullets falling over laager ; we re- turned it with ' sharpshooters , ' and soon silenced it . 2 P.M. - Body 60 strong advancing on west of town , turned off and passed to Stander's Kop . Continual fire from stony koppie and ...
... fire , bullets falling over laager ; we re- turned it with ' sharpshooters , ' and soon silenced it . 2 P.M. - Body 60 strong advancing on west of town , turned off and passed to Stander's Kop . Continual fire from stony koppie and ...
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... fire , when I could follow myself and occupy the hill . In front of the wall we were bound for was a farmhouse , known to be the sleeping - place of the Boer picket which held the heights ; and we intended to surprise this party in the ...
... fire , when I could follow myself and occupy the hill . In front of the wall we were bound for was a farmhouse , known to be the sleeping - place of the Boer picket which held the heights ; and we intended to surprise this party in the ...
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... fire . However , that was not to be . We had waited an hour , and the night was going out , objects around growing distinct in shape , less ghostly than they had been , when there came a sound of galloping , the first sound since ...
... fire . However , that was not to be . We had waited an hour , and the night was going out , objects around growing distinct in shape , less ghostly than they had been , when there came a sound of galloping , the first sound since ...
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... fire from behind the stones . How their bullets did tear the grass up , casting up little clouds of dust in the men's faces kneeling down to fire back ! Not a man winced ; they knelt and fired as cool as if at exercise , putting up ...
... fire from behind the stones . How their bullets did tear the grass up , casting up little clouds of dust in the men's faces kneeling down to fire back ! Not a man winced ; they knelt and fired as cool as if at exercise , putting up ...
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Էջ 571 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Էջ 259 - Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity: these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Էջ 361 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Էջ 215 - Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Էջ 149 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Էջ 361 - They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks ; neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his path : and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Էջ 34 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Էջ 396 - NEAVES. A Glance at some of the Principles of Comparative Philology. As illustrated in the Latin and Anglican Forms of Speech. By the Hon. Lord NEAVES. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. Songs and Verses, Social and Scientific. By an Old Contributor to 'Maga.
Էջ 234 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of -uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Էջ 602 - ... Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.