 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1853 - 702 pages
...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' Tt is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me :' and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was bome from the fight." From the spot where he... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pages
...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' His strength was failing fast, and life was just extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating... | |
 | 1855 - 440 pages
...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off ; but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." And in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, he was borne from the fight by his devoted men, who went... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...against him — " the sword he had never disgraced " — the General said faintly, '* No, Harding ; it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they tore their dying commander, for in him the soldier bad not destroyed the... | |
 | John William Cole - 1856 - 400 pages
...to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; but he stopped him, and said with true soldierlike feelings, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was conveyed to his quarters in Corunna, where he lingered for several hours in intense agony, but... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...sword was driven into the wound ; an officer attempted to take it off, hut the dying hero exclaimed, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me.' He continued to converse calmly, and even cheerfully; once only his voice faltered,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1860 - 750 pages
...celebrity in future times, CAPTAIN HARDINGE, attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me." He -was carried by the soldiers towards the town, but though the pain of the... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...entered the wound ; Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying : " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ; " and in that manner so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Notwithstanding this... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 336 pages
...wound, and Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle it, but, with martial pride, the veteran General forbade him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Major Colborne (afterwards Lord Seton), the chief of his staff, then came up to inquire after him,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1862 - 590 pages
...was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it it. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.* Meanwhile the army... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
