 ... spectators. Notwithstanding the security with which the English general marshalled his warriors, he felt that the approaching contest would be a battle of no common incidents. The eyes of tens of thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion...  Cooper's Works: Lionel Lincoln - Page 264by James Fenimore Cooper - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Thompson Lowe - Geography - 1831 - 232 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...stations under cover of the brow of the eminence. 9. Their force was in some measure divided ; one moiety attempting the toilsome ascent of the hill,... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...the other moving along the beach, or in the orchards of the more level ground, towards the husbandmen on the meadows. The latter soon disappeared behind... | |
 | Novelist - 1839 - 570 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...the other moving along the beach, or in the orchards of the more level ground, towards the husbandmen on the meadows. The latter soon disappeared behind... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...the relative disparity continued undiminished to the end of the struggle. 134. The Same, continued. THE troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and the...stations under cover of the brow of the eminence. The advance of the British line, so beautiful and slow, resembled rather the ordered steadiness of... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 566 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...the other moving along the beach, or in the orchards of the more level ground, towards the husbandmen on the meadows. The latter soon disappeared behind... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...the relative disparity continued undiminished to the end of the smigglo. 134. The Same, continued. THE troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and the...stations under cover of the brow of the eminence. The advance of the British line, so beautiful and slow, resembled rather the ordered steadiness of... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...stations under cover of the brow of the eminence. Their COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF PROSE. force was in some measure divided ; one moiety attempting the toilsome... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 478 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...ascent of the hill, and the other moving along the bench, or in the orchards of the more level ground, towards the husbandmen on the meadows. The latter... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Boston (Mass.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...ascent of the hill, and the other moving along the Itench, or in the orchards of the more level ground, towards the husbandmen on the meadows. The latter... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1864 - 552 pages
...thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and...the other moving along the beach, or in the orchards ot the more level ground, towards the husbandmen on the meadows. The latter soon disappeared behind... | |
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