 | 1912 - 912 pagina’s
...not a sound of trumpet more, or roll of drum ; not a cheer, or word or whisper of vain-glorying, or motion of man standing again at the order; but an...breathholding, as if it were the passing of the dead!' Great, in the broad and high sense, was the cause battled for, and spontaneous and knightly was this... | |
 | Morris Schaff - 1912 - 338 pagina’s
...horse one uplifted figure, with profound salutation as he drops the point of his sword to the boot-toe; then, facing to his own command, gives word for his...breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead! " Great, in the broad and high sense, was the cause battled for, and spontaneous and knightly was this... | |
 | 1912 - 900 pagina’s
...not a sound of trumpet more, or roll of drum; not a cheer, or word or whisper of vain-glorying, or motion of man standing again at the order; but an...breathholding, as if it were the passing of the dead!' Great, in the broad and high sense, was the cause battled for, and spontaneous and knightly was this... | |
 | John J. Pullen - 1999 - 248 pagina’s
...by Chamberlain's description of the Confederate troops as they marched past his own to surrender — "an awed stillness rather and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead!"5 In Cation's works only minimum attention was paid to Joshua Chamberlain but they had an important... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 pagina’s
...part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glory, nor motion of man standing again at the order, but...breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead!'. . . "Smallwonder that an incidentlike this should have been repeated all over the South and that Gordon,... | |
 | Daniel N. Rolph - 2002 - 176 pagina’s
...a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper . . . nor motion . . . but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead. As each . . . division halts, the men face inwards towards us across the road, twelve feet away . . . worn... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pagina’s
...men passed by they saluted the Union soldiers in kind. "On our part," as Chamberlain described it, "not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not...breathholding, as if it were the passing of the dead." 352 The two recent antagonists behaved not as bitter enemies normally do when one has conquered and... | |
 | George Walsh - 2006 - 484 pagina’s
...a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying . . . but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead!" 29 Each Rebel brigade and regiment—some so painfully depleted as to be unrecognizable—then halted,... | |
 | Robin Wagner-Pacifici - 2005 - 223 pagina’s
...a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word, nor whisper or vainglorying . . . but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead . . . How could we help falling on our knees, all of us together, and praying God to pity and forgive... | |
 | John R. Hall, Blake Stimson, Lisa Tamiris Becker - 2005 - 282 pagina’s
...a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word, nor whisper or vainglorying . . . but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead . . . How could we help falling on our knees, all of us together, and praying God to pity and forgive... | |
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On our part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, nor motion of man standing again at the order, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead! 
