| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...pride to brave, The lake is passed, and now they gain A narrow and a broken plain, Before the Trosach's rugged jaws ; And here the horse and spear-men pause,...of heaven, The archery appear : For life ! for life ! their flight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry, And plaids, and bonnets waving high,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...and slow. The lake is passed, and now they gain A narrow and a broken plain, . Before the Trosach's rugged jaws; And here the horse and spear-men pause,...of heaven, The archery appear : For life ! for life ! their flight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry, And plaids, and bonnets waving high,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...rngged jaws ; And here the horse and spearmen panse, While, to explore the dangerons glen, Dive throngh the pass the archer-men. XVII. " At once there rose...the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had pealed the hanner-cry of hell ! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chafI hefore the wind of heaven, The... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...dark, and slow. The lake is pass'd, and now they gain A narrow and a broken plain, Before the Trosach's rugged jaws; And here the horse and spear-men pause,...dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the banner-cry of hell! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...horse and sp.ar-men While, to explore the dangerous glen, Dive through the pass the archer-men. XVII. c At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark...dell, As all the fiends from heaven that fell, Had peeled the banner-cry of hell ! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 pages
...and spear-man pause, While, to explore the dangerous glen, Dive through the pass the archer-men. " At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark...dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peeled the banner-cry of hell ! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...our fifes, the shrieks that fill the air !" 55. DESCRIPTION OF AN ANCIENT BATTLE IN SCOTLAND.Scott. At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark...of heaven, The archery appear ; For life ! for life ! their flight they ply ; And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry, And plaids and bonnets waving high,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 pages
...dark, and slow. The lake is passed, and now they gain A narrow and a hroken plain, Before the Trosach's rugged jaws; And here the horse and spear-men pause,...the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had pealed the hanner-cry of hell ! Forth from the pass in tumult driven. Like chaff hefore the wind of heaven, The... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 pages
...dark, and slow. The lake is pass'd, and now they gain A narrow and a broken plain, Before the Trosach's rugged jaws ; And here the horse and spearmen pause,...dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the hanner-cry of hell! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of... | |
| 1841 - 474 pages
...favoring the Indians, preserved a strict neutrality, and were of course unmolested by either nation. " At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark...heaven that fell, Had pealed the banner-cry of hell." It was but a prelude to a work of blood. Exasperated at their repeated discomfitures, the Ottawas fought... | |
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