 Dove towards such an Ark! Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man already fell; and lies smashed, far down there, against the masonry! Usher Maillard falls not: deftly, unerring he walks, with outspread palm. The Swiss holds a paper through his porthole; the...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1291843Full view - About this book
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1911 - 290 pages
...sound. Compare the difference in movement between the two following. Each is appropriate to its subject. The Swiss holds a paper through his porthole. The...snatches it and returns. Terms of surrender, Pardon and immunity to all! Are they accepted? "Foi d'officier" (on the word of an officer), answer shall... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1913 - 386 pages
...plank resting on parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, — he hovers perilous : such a Dove towards such an Ark ! Deftly, thou shifty Usher : one man...officer," answers half-pay Hulin, — or half-pay Elie, for men do not agree on it, — " they are ! " Sinks the drawbridge, — Usher Maillard bolting... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1914 - 392 pages
...plank resting on parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, — he hovers perilous : such a Dove towards such an Ark ! Deftly, thou shifty Usher : one man...snatches it, and returns. Terms of surrender : Pardon, im158 munity to all! Are they accepted? — " Foi d'offider, On the word of an officer," answers half-pay... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Charles Seymour - 1915 - 298 pages
...plank resting on parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, —he hovers perilous: such a Dove towards such an Ark! Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man already...officer," answers half-pay Hulin, — or half-pay Elie, for men do not agree on it, "they are!" Sinks the drawbridge, — Usher Maillard bolting it when... | |
 | BLISS PERRY - 1915 - 328 pages
...plank resting on a parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots,—he hovers perilous: such a Dove towards such an Ark! Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man already...d'officier, On the word of an officer,' answers halfpay Hulin,—or half-pay Elie, for men do not agree on it, 'they are!' Sinks the drawbridge,—Usher Maillard... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Charles Seymour - 1915 - 298 pages
...plank resting on parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots,- — he hovers perilous: such a Dove towards such an Ark! Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man already...Pardon, immunity to all! Are they accepted? — "Foi d'qfficier, On the word of an officer," answers half-pay Hulin, — or half-pay Elie, for men do not... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1915 - 278 pages
...plank resting on a parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, — he hovers perilous: such a Dove towards such an Ark ! Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man already...Pardon, immunity to all ! Are they accepted ? — 'Foi d'offider, On the word of an officer,' answers halfpay Hulin, — or half-pay Elie, for men do not... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1915 - 302 pages
...plank resting on a parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, — he hovers perilous: such a Dove towards such an Ark ! Deftly, thou shifty Usher : one man...surrender : Pardon, immunity to all ! Are they accepted ? — Tot d'officier, On the word of an officer,' answers halfpay Hulin, — or half-pay Elie, for... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 380 pages
...on parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, — he hovers perilous: such a Dove toward such an Arkl Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man already fell ;...officer)," answers half-pay Hulin, — or half-pay Elie, for men do not agree on it, — "they are!" Sinks the Drawbridge — Usher Maillard bolting it... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...plank resting on Parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots, — he hovers perilous: such a Dove towards t yearî Will it be when we are totally disarmed,...we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lyi the porthole; the shifty Usher snatches it, and returns. Terms of surrender: Pardon, immunity to all!... | |
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