The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet wide, all around us, and cast up an embankment some twenty-five feet high on both borders of it. As to destruction of life, it was amazing. Moreover, it was beyond estimate. Of course we could not... A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur - Page 250by Mark Twain - 1890Full view - About this book
| Mark Twain - 1889 - 494 pages
...VI G 2 I O r. X ft I o >• > it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another quarter -hour the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to...wall of smoke ; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements ; this... | |
| William Thomas Stead - 1890 - 766 pages
...The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet wide, all around us, and cast up an embankment twenty-five feet high on both borders of it. As to...but merely as homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iro n and buttons. I picketed the great embankments thrown up around our lines by the dynamite explosion... | |
| Mark Twain - 1899 - 430 pages
...itself. No living creature was in sight! We now perceived that additions had been made to our defenses. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet...wall of smoke ; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements ; this... | |
| Mark Twain - 1899 - 436 pages
...itself. No living creature was in sight! We now perceived that additions had been made to our defenses. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet...the field under cover of the wall of smoke ; there the recent annihilating wars. So I felt quite safe in believing that the utmost force that could for... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 504 pages
...itself. No living creature was in sight 1 We now perceived that additions had been made to our defenses. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet...the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements; this... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 426 pages
...itself. No living creature was in sight ! We now perceived that additions had been made to our defenses. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet...wall of smoke ; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements ; this... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 494 pages
...itself. No living creature was in sight ! We now perceived that additions had been made to our defenses. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet...homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons. No He was in sight, but necessarily there must have been some wounded in the rear ranks, who were carried... | |
| Mark Twain - 2005 - 338 pages
...destruction of life, it was amazing. Moreover, it was beyond estimate. Of course we could not countlhe dead, because they did not exist as individuals, but...the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements; this... | |
| Mark Twain - 1972 - 420 pages
...shot into the sky with a thunder-crash, and became a whirling tempest of rags and fragments; and abng the ground lay a thick wall of smoke that hid what...the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others - there always is, after an episode like that. But there would be no reinforcements; this was... | |
| Daniel Aaron - 1987 - 430 pages
...(as Mark Twain says of the smashed and exploded squadrons of Merlin), the dead could not be counted because "they did not exist as individuals, but merely...homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons." The chivalry of medieval Britain and of nineteenth-century America were both swept away by the machine... | |
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