 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 402 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1883 - 236 pages
...were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there were no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball, fired from her mizzen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1890 - 424 pages
...were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining 10 the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pages
...guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly 'ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzen-top,1 which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1893 - 524 pages
...this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards fiom that part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 pages
...this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 pages
...as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, Vhich he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A...fired from her mizen-top, which, in the then situation ryf the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 316 pages
...ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzentop—which in the then situation of the two vessels was not more...fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing—struck the epaulet on his left shoulder about a quarter after one, just in the heat of the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 466 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 328 pages
...guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her mizzen-top, which in the then situation of the two vessels was not more than fifteen yards from that... | |
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A ball fired from her mizen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat... 
