 | George Punchard - Church history - 1867 - 494 pages
...as the sailors were about to return for a second load, "the master espied a great company, both of horse and foot, with bills, and guns, and other weapons,...to take them. The Dutchman seeing that, swore his country oath, ' sacramente,' and having the wind fair, weighed anchor, hoisted sail and away." The... | |
 | Universalism - 1871 - 1032 pages
...boatful was got aboard and she was ready to go for more, the master espied a great company, both of horse and foot, with bills and guns and other weapons,...The Dutchman, seeing that, swore his country's oath, ' sacramenle,' and having the wind fair, weighed anchor, hoisted sails, and away. After enduring a... | |
 | John Waddington - Congregationalism - 1874 - 756 pages
...till noon. In the meantime, the shipmaster perceiving how the matter was, sent his boat to be getting the men aboard, whom he saw ready walking about the...oath, ' sacramente,' and having the wind fair weighed his anchor, hoisted sails and away. But the poor men which were got aboard were in great distress for... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - Massachusetts - 1874 - 558 pages
...boat had gone once and returned full of passengers, and was ready to go the second time — behold ! " a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and guns and other weapons !" The dangerous fugitives had been tracked, and the posse comitatus had been called out to capture... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - Massachusetts - 1874 - 546 pages
...boat had gone once and returned full of passengers, and was ready to go the second time — behold ! " a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and guns and other weapons !" The dangerous fugitives had been tracked, and the posse comitatus had been called out to capture... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - Massachusetts - 1874 - 512 pages
...boat had gone once and returned full of passengers, and was ready to go the second time—behold ! " a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and guns and other weapons !" The dangerous fugitives had been tracked, and the posse comitatus had been called out to capture... | |
 | Robert Barclay - Great Britain - 1877 - 820 pages
...by the tune the first boatful had been taken to the ship, " the country was raised to take them ... a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and guns, and other weapons." The Dutchman thereupon " swore his country's oath, ' sacremente,' and having the wind fair, waiyed... | |
 | William Deverell - Church history - 1887 - 346 pages
...boat was on the point of returning for the remainder of the men, when, to their dismay, they saw " a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and guns and other weapons " — it was the posse comitatus —rapidly approach the bark, and capture it. At once the captain,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Massachusetts - 1891 - 412 pages
...Bradford's party. But after the first boat-full was on board, the master spied a great company on shore, both horse and foot, with bills and guns and other...the country was raised to take them. The Dutchman swore an oath, " Sacrement ! " weighed his anchor and sailed, leaving more than half the party. It... | |
 | John Brown - Brownists - 1895 - 384 pages
...board, and was starting for a second, when, to his dismay, he saw in the distance, in full pursuit, ' a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and...the country was raised to take them.' The Dutchman, feeling that his first duty was to take care of himself, ' swore his country's oath — sacramente,'... | |
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But after the first boatful was got aboard, and she was ready to go for more, the master espied a great company (both horse and foot), with bills, and guns, and other weapons (for the country was raised to take them). 
