 ... were directed. Under these circumstances, as nothing could be done offensively, our sole object was to shelter the men as much as possible from this iron hail. With this view, they were commanded to leave the fires, and to hasten under the dyke. Thither...  The Foreign Review - Page 4691829Full view - About this book
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1852 - 384 pages
...leave the fires, and to hasten under the dyke. Whither all, accordingly, repaired, without much regard to order and regularity, and, laying ourselves along...find room, we listened, in painful silence, to the pattering of grape-shot among our huts, and to the shrieks and groans of those who lay wounded beside... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Arctic regions - 1896 - 496 pages
...ourselves along wherever we could find room, we listened in painful silence to the pattering of grape-shot among our huts, and to the shrieks and groans of those who lay wounded beside them. Worse still, the attack of the schooner, as they were soon to discover, was only one part of the enemy's... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1852 - 422 pages
...leave the fires, and to hasten under the dyke. Whither all, accordingly, repaired, without much regard to order and regularity, and, laying ourselves along...find room, we listened, in painful silence, to the pattering of grape-shot among our huts, and to the shrieks and groans of those who lay wounded beside... | |
 | 1821 - 654 pages
...wherever they could find room, listening in painful silence to the scattering of grape shot among their huts, and to the shrieks and groans of those who lay wounded beside them. The night was dismal and dark, the watch fires, beat about by the enemy's shot, began to burn red and dull ; and... | |
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