 | 1827 - 790 pages
...beat about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull, and, except where the flashes of the guns cast a momentary glare, not an object could be distinguished at the distance of a yard. la this helpless state, the British lay for upwards of an hour, when a straggling fire of musketry... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1821 - 420 pages
...about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull, and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us cast a momentary glare, not an object...to prepare for a closer and more desperate strife. As yet, however, it was un-. certain from what cause this dropping fire arose. It might proceed from... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1821 - 450 pages
...about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull, and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us cast a momentary glare, 'not an object...to prepare for a closer and more desperate strife. • As yet, however, it was uncertain frpm what cause this dropping fire arose. It might proceed from... | |
 | 1821 - 510 pages
...by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull , and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us, cast a momentary glare, not an object...fire of musketry called our attention towards the pickets, and warned us to prepare for a closer and more desperate strife. As yet, however, it was uncertain... | |
 | 1821 - 526 pages
...by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull ; and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us, cast a momentary glare, not an object...or offer any opposition to those who kept us there ; tyhen a straggling fire of musketry called our attention towards the pickets, and warned us to prepare... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull ; and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us, cast a momentary glare, not an object...be distinguished at the distance of a yard. In this slate we lay for nearly an hour, unable to move from our ground, or offer any opposition to those who... | |
 | 1826 - 622 pages
...about by the enemy's shot, began to bnrn red and dull ; and, except when the Hashes of those guns which played upon us cast a momentary glare, not an object...to prepare for a closer and more desperate strife. As yet, however, it was uncertain from what cause this dropping fire arose. It might proceed from the... | |
 | 1826 - 590 pages
...burn red and dull; and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us cast a momt ntary glare, not an object could be distinguished at the...ground, or offer any opposition to those who kept UB there ; when a straggling fire of musketry called our attention towards the piquets, and warned... | |
 | 1827 - 602 pages
...about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull, and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us cast a- momentary glare, not an object...to prepare for a closer and more desperate strife. As yet, however, it was uncertain from what cause this dropping fire arose. It might proceed from the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull, and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us cast a. momentary glare, not an object...to prepare for a closer and more desperate strife. As yet, however, it was uncertain from what cause this dropping fire arose. It might proceed from the... | |
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The night was now as dark as pitch, the moon being but young, and totally obscured with clouds. Our fires deserted by us, and beat about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull, and, except when the flashes of those guns which played upon us cast... 
