| Léony Guilgault - 1885 - 240 Seiten
...was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying ; ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' And in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. XLVIII. Portrait du capitaine Bitterlin. — Lorsqu'on lui... | |
| James Macaulay - 1885 - 458 Seiten
...afterwards Lord Hardinge, attempted to take it off, but he stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Several times he caused his attendants to stop, and turn round that he might behold the field of battle... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 406 Seiten
...attempted to disentangle it, but the dying hero stopped him :' It is as well , ' said he, ' as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Meanwhile the pressure upon the enemy was so strenuous and so persistent that, in spite of their superior... | |
| Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 Seiten
...near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as " well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with "me."...rapidly gaining ground. The reserve, overthrowing everything in the valley, and obliging La Housraye's dragoons (who had dismounted) to retire, turned... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1890 - 598 Seiten
...was near, attempted to take it off", but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me...becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.* Meanwhile the army was rapidly gaining ground. The reserve, overthrowing everything in the valley,... | |
| Hugh Craig - 1891 - 200 Seiten
...officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me...becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." Moore died shortly after he had been carried from the battle. The last words he was heard to say were,... | |
| Thomas Somerville - 1891 - 320 Seiten
...the hilt striking against his wounded shoulder, and began to unbuckle the belt. "No, no, Hardinge, I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" and with his sword girded round him — a sword which he had never disgraced — the dying chief was borne... | |
| Charles Stewart Hardinge (2d Viscount) - 1891 - 224 Seiten
...in his legs. In the act of my unbuckling it, he said in his usual tone, " It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Observing the resolution and composure of his features, I caught at the hope that I might be mistaken... | |
| Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 Seiten
...was near, 'attempted to take it off; but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me...becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Sir John Hope, upon whom the command of the army now •devolved, 'resolved to pursue the original... | |
| Archibald Forbes - 1896 - 360 Seiten
...entered the wound ; but the dying man said in his usual tone and manner, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." " He was borne," continued Captain Hardinge, P " by six soldiers of the 42nd and Guardsmen, my sash... | |
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