 | 1834 - 614 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharp-pointed, keenedged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together,...on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot... | |
 | International peace society - 232 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of swordblades, sharp-pointed, keen-edged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together...being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, fulling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the... | |
 | 1834 - 604 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharp-pointed, keenedged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together,...in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, otndded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and... | |
 | 1834 - 734 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharp-pointed, keen-edged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together, and set deep in the ruins; and lor ten foet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks studded with sharp iron points, on which... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharp pointed, keen edged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together...feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and 164 the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 348 σελίδες
...keen-edged sword-blades, firmly fixed in ponderous beams, chained together, and set deep in the ruins : for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points ; which, being pressed by the feet of the foremost, tilted up; and the wretched victims, falling forward... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 530 σελίδες
...keen-edged swordblades, firmly fixed in ponderous beams, chained together, and set deep in the ruins : for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points ; which, being pressed by the feet of the foremost, tilted up ; and the wretched victims, falling forward... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharppointed, keen-edged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feel in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 σελίδες
...across the top glittered a range of sword blades, sharp-pointed, keen-edged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together...in front the ascent was covered with loose planks, stndded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set the planks moved, and the... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 532 σελίδες
...keen-edged swordblades, firmly fixed in ponderous beams, chained together, and set deep in the ruins: for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points ; which, being pressed by the feet of the foremost, tilted up ; and the wretched victims, falling forward... | |
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... the continual clatter of the muskets, made a maddening din. " Now a multitude bounded up the great breach as if driven by a whirlwind, but across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharp-pointed, keenedged on both sides, and firmly fixed in... 
