Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 122
... sides . Nevertheless the malignants shooting their wall - pieces at us , had so much the advantage , that , after bursting their gates with a salvo of our cannon , Colonel Harrison ordered his men to advance 122 WOODSTOCK .
... sides . Nevertheless the malignants shooting their wall - pieces at us , had so much the advantage , that , after bursting their gates with a salvo of our cannon , Colonel Harrison ordered his men to advance 122 WOODSTOCK .
Page 123
... side by the fire , they at length fell into disorder , and were retreating with much loss , Harrison himself valiantly bringing up the rear , and defending them as he could against the enemy , who sallied forth in pursuit of them , to ...
... side by the fire , they at length fell into disorder , and were retreating with much loss , Harrison himself valiantly bringing up the rear , and defending them as he could against the enemy , who sallied forth in pursuit of them , to ...
Page 125
... proceed , reverend sir ; I see not how this storm , an incident but e'en too frequent on both sides during the late war , connects with the affair of last night . " " You shall hear anon , " said Mr Holdenough WOODSTOCK . 125.
... proceed , reverend sir ; I see not how this storm , an incident but e'en too frequent on both sides during the late war , connects with the affair of last night . " " You shall hear anon , " said Mr Holdenough WOODSTOCK . 125.
Page 141
... side , give you warning not to attempt to meddle beyond your commission . " " Right - you hold me already to be as sub- missive as one of your grenadiers , ” replied the clergyman , his acute features trembling with a sense of indignity ...
... side , give you warning not to attempt to meddle beyond your commission . " " Right - you hold me already to be as sub- missive as one of your grenadiers , ” replied the clergyman , his acute features trembling with a sense of indignity ...
Page 163
... side with open profligacy and profanity , on the other with the fraudful tone of fanaticism or hypocrisy , ex- ercised nearly in like degree their talents for mur- der or plunder . But it was broad daylight , the distance from the Lodge ...
... side with open profligacy and profanity , on the other with the fraudful tone of fanaticism or hypocrisy , ex- ercised nearly in like degree their talents for mur- der or plunder . But it was broad daylight , the distance from the Lodge ...
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