 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 238 pages
...by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 708 pages
...by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | James Sibbald David Scott - Great Britain - 1880 - 652 pages
...struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was...Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen Nothing could .stop that astonishing infantry. . . . . The rain flowed after in streams discoloured... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - Fiction - 1880 - 416 pages
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed with their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - Fiction - 1880 - 412 pages
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed with their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 pages
...reeled ami •-"••' gered like sinking ships ; but, suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans Lreak from the crowded... | |
 | John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. BRIGHT. (46.) Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies; and then was...fights. In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate lus Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the 5 crowded columns,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1885 - 670 pages
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed with their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what...and majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Sonlt by voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the noblest veterans, extricating themselves... | |
 | William Broadfoot - Afghan Wars - 1888 - 518 pages
...extreme left, ordered him also to bring his reserve brigade into action.i The carnage was frightful, ' and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights.' 2 The French at length gave way, and ' like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the ascent. The rain... | |
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In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up,... 
