 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...express which Major Washington despatched on his preceding little victory (the skirmish with Jumonville) he concluded with these words : ' I heard the bullets...something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the king said sensibly, ' he would not say so if he had been used to hear many.' However, this brave... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1901 - 374 pages
...capturing all but one. Colonel Washington was in the thickest of the fight, and wrote in a letter, " I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." After this fight, which began the war, Washington returned to Great Meadows, and, learning that a large... | |
 | Freemasons. Pennsylvania. Grand Lodge, Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania - 1902 - 482 pages
...characteristic of a thoroughly healthy and vigorous body, after his first campaign writing to his brother that " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe, me, there is something charming in the sound." (Applause.) In a smaller nature there would be an element of bravado in this, but with him it was unquestionably... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1902 - 136 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle; and, believe me, there is something charming in the Bound." The letter was published in the London Magazine. It is said George II. read it and commented... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1903 - 348 pages
...sing about him. George Washington wrote when he was a young man, after the first of his battles : " I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Denton did not find it so. He wished with all his heart that he were out of range. He had plenty of... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1903 - 222 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle ; and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." The letter was published in the London Magazine. It is said George II. read it and commented dryly:... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 288 pages
...French were killed, one wounded, and twentyone captured. In a letter to his brother, Washington wrote, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the soimd." When asked many years after if he had really said this, he replied, " If I said so, it was... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - 1905 - 182 pages
...received all the enemies' fire, and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound. " However, the campaign ended disastrously. After another fight a month later at the same place, in... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry, Henry William Elson - 1905 - 372 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; it was the part where the man was killed and the rest were wounded. I heard the bullets whistle; and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." At home, where the great odds under which Washington had worked, and the failure of the government... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 pages
...little battle of Jumonville, in 1754, when he was twenty-two years of age, it is related that he said, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ! " King George the Second added, " He would not say so if he had been used to hearing many." When... | |
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I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound. 
