 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Delhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight!" " How they'll greet us!" —and all in a moment his roan Rolled...eyesockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " VIII. " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...for Aix is in sight! . " How they'll greet us!"—and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...I, Past Looz and past Tongr£s, no cloud in the sky ; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone j And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they "ll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Roiled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " V11I. " How they'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. EL. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Joris, "for Aix is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan, Eoll'd neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leanM,... | |
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for Aix is in sight!" " How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils... 
