 They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back!  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Pagina 281820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back I Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again to... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers—they rush in—they are thrust back ! IVont-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 532 pagina’s
...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust 25 back! — Fron^de-Boauf 0 heads the defenders;—I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng...the pass is disputed hand to hand, and man to man. It is the meeting of two fierce tides — the conflict of two oceans, moved by adverse winds! " 80... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pagina’s
...down the barriers with -axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back! — Front-de-Bceuf * heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes — his high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over ly known ¡uid appreciated. His first collection of 1>оеш.ч apiieared ! — Front-de-Hœuf heads the defenders, 1 see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pagina’s
...hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in. Now they are thrust back. Frontde-Boeuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! Front-do-Boeuf heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again to... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...the pass is disputed hand to hand, and man to man. It is the meeting of two fierce tides — the conflict of two oceans, moved by adverse winds!" She... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven, over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers, — they rush in, — they are thrust back! — Front-de-Bo3uf* heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pagina’s
...down the barriers with axes. — His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over ir love ! Where are ye gone, And shall we wake from...long sleep of death, To know each other, conscious of ! — Front -de-Bceuf heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again... | |
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