 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...я stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Ail from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of...brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' Then I cast loose ray buff-coat, each holste let fall, Shook ofl' both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...moment, his roan11 Rolled neck and croup12 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,13 With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets'... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - Elocution - 1879 - 256 pages
...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...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear. Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 400 pages
...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...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at... | |
 | Children's periodicals, English - 1879 - 624 pages
...each other ; we kept the great pace leek by neck, sfcri4e by stride, never changing ourplaee ; ~ a Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,...rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let .w he er, sly eta an at Joe the oon >me the and ome ular *ihe felt >ple be had by; nee dm. ked asn... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 pages
...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...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast my loose buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...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...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. Then 1 cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...moment, his roan. Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his, eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat — each holster let fall — Shook off both my jack-boots... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 358 pages
...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...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockete' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of tho 9B;30@7 ,2 pet name, my horse without peer, — • Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good,... | |
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— 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 like pits full of blood to the brim, And with... 
