Rough Notes by an Old Soldier: During Fifty Years' Service, Band 2Day, 1867 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amongst army artillery ashore Balaclava Bangalore barracks batteries battle BATTLE OF TOULOUSE beautiful Black Sea Bosphorus breakfast called camp Captain cavalry Cephalonia cheer cholera church cold Colonel command Crimea dark dead death deep dined dinner dress embarked England everything eyes feet fellow fire French friends Gallipoli George Cathcart grand Greek ground guns handsome harbour head hill honour horses hospital island killed Knights of Malta ladies land last night light look Lord Lord Raglan Malta marble miles Montreal morning never nice o'clock officers party passed Paul's Bay poor pretty priests Quebec rain regiment river rock Rooskies round shot Royal Russian Sebastopol sent shell ship shot side snow soldiers steamer stone streets tent to-day took town trees troops Turks Valetta Varna wind wounded
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 360 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our final rest, Living or dying, none were blest.
Seite 272 - In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken ; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Seite 320 - And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
Seite 265 - A few short years of evil past, We reach the happy shore, Where death-divided friends at last Shall meet, to part no more.
Seite 119 - The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness ! PRINCE HENRY, emerging from the bridge.
Seite 128 - Augsburg, were secured from oppression by the mere terror of his great name. The Pope himself was forced to preach humanity and moderation to Popish princes. For a voice which seldom threatened in vain had declared that, unless...
Seite 363 - Major for his exertions in recovering the guns of the fort and shots from the bottom of the river, and mounting them in position when it was reported impracticable ; the guns were 24-pounders, sixteen of which and 4,000 rouud shut he recovered in the depth cf a Canadian winter.
Seite 363 - Coteau-du-Lac, an important position on the river St. Lawrence, and received the thanks of the Commander of the Forces...
Seite 139 - " Corunna " " Busaco " " Salamanca " " Vittoria " " St. Sebastian " "Nive" " Peninsula " " Niagara " " Waterloo " " Nagpore " "Maheidpore"
Seite 209 - Tho' from that head, late towering high, The waving plume is torn, And low in dust that form doth lie, Dishonour'd and forlorn ! Yet Death's dark shadow cannot hide The graven characters of pride, That on the lip and brow reveal The impress of the spirit's seal. Lives there a mother to deplore The son she ne'er shall see ? Or maiden, on some distant shore, To break her heart for thee? — Perchance to roam a maniac there, With wild-flower wreaths to deck her hair, And through the weary night to wait...