 | Alexander Walker - 1856 - 434 pages
...hawk-like grey eye, betrayed a soul and spirit which triumphed over all the infirmities of the body. His dress was simple, and nearly threadbare. A small...and legs were encased in high dragoon boots, long igorant of polish or blacking, which reached to the knees. In age, he appeared to have passed about... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1859 - 502 pages
...hawk-like grey eye, betrayed a soul and spirit which triumphed over all the infirmities of the body. His dress was simple, and nearly threadbare. A small...and legs were encased in high dragoon boots, long igorant of polish or blacking, which reached to the knees. In age, he appeared to have pateed about... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...and hawk-like eye betrayed a soul and spirit which triumphed over all the infirmities of the body. His dress was simple, and nearly threadbare. A small...blue cloak his body; whilst his feet and legs were incased in high dragoon-boots, long ignorant of polish or blacking, which reached to the knees. In... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 pages
...a short Spanish blue cloak his body ; whilst his feet and legs were incased in high dragoon-boots, long ignorant of polish or blacking, which reached...appeared to have passed about forty-five winters." In some mysterious way, Gen. Jackson had acquired the manners of the most polished and accomplished... | |
 | Archibald Forbes - 1896 - 822 pages
...and hawk-like eye betrayed a soul and spirit which triumphed over all the infirmities of the body. His dress was simple and nearly threadbare. A small...arrival at New Orleans, General Jackson began making ever}- arrangement for the defence of the town, inspecting and improving the river forts, reconnoitring... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1906 - 570 pages
...and hawklike eyes betrayed a soul and spirit which triumphed over all the infirmities of the body. His dress was simple and nearly threadbare. A small...he appeared to have passed about forty-five winters — the season for which his stern and ha.rdy nature seemed peculiarly adapted." ' And this is Eaton's... | |
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But the fierce glare of his bright and hawk-like eye betrayed a soul and spirit which triumphed over all the infirmities of the body. His dress was simple and nearly threadbare. A small leather cap protected his head, and a short Spanish blue cloak his... 