 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 714 Seiten
...them. I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes,...and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an infall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 354 Seiten
...obliged to run ray head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour mu&t conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with iron...and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an infall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 Seiten
...them. I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes,...and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an infall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the... | |
 | 1850 - 866 Seiten
...Adolphus, have contributed to the dressing of the Swedish feathers, " whilk," saith Dalgetty, " your honour must conceive to be doublepointed stakes, shod...of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry, the same being not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose." Long before the editorial... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1891 - 258 Seiten
...acquaintances "the Sicediih feather*," whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod witli iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. Scott, Legend of Montrose, ii. sweep Swedish fir, a commercial name of the Scotch pine. See pinei.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1896 - 258 Seiten
...feathers" of Captain Dalgetty.1 Here, for two whole days, Hepburn 1 " The Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes,...and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an outfall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 1012 Seiten
...was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honor must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with...they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or leaser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to... | |
 | Bertram Edward Sargeaunt - 1908 - 80 Seiten
...I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances the " Swedish Feathers," whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes,...of pikes to prevent an onfall of the Cavalry.' The lance of modern Cavalry seems to have originated with the French. Napoleon formed a Regiment of Polish... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1995 - 300 Seiten
...them. I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes,...and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an infall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the... | |
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For hard knocks, we had plenty of them. I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes... 