 | 1823 - 496 pages
...are not mutilated, and these were sensible that they were no longer under any restraint of hurtian power. A general conflict ensued, in which, retaining...down, till the shore, in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Part of them had been set frie on a rising ground at... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 614 pages
...other in squadrons of ten or twenty together ; then closely engaged, striking with their fore-feet, and biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious...down, till the shore, in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Part of them had been set free on a rising ground at... | |
 | Robert Southey - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1823 - 844 pages
...other in squadrons of ten or twenty together; then closely engaged, striking with their fore-feet, and biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious...down, till the shore, in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Part of them had been set free on a rising ground at... | |
 | 1823 - 610 pages
...other in squadrons of ten or twenty together ; then closely engaged, striking with their fore-feet, and biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious...down, till the shore, in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Part of them had been set free on a rising ground at... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1824
...engaged, striking with their fore-feet, and biting and tearing each other with the greatest rage ; trampling over those which were beaten down, till the shore in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and wounded. Part of them had been set free on a rising ground at... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 844 pages
...which, retaining the discipline that they had learned, they charged each other in squadrons of ten or twenty together ; then closely engaged, striking...down, till the shore, in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Part of them had been set free on a rising ground at... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...ensued, in which, retaining the disciplin they had learnt, they charged each other in squadrons, of ten or twenty together, then closely engaged, striking with their fore feet, and hi ting and tearing each other with the most ferocious rage, and trampling over those which were beaten... | |
 | Bond of brotherhood - 1861 - 798 pages
...each other in squadrons often of twelve together, then closely engaged, striking with their fore feet, biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious rage, and trampling over those who were beaten down, till the shore, in the space of an hour, was ttrcwn with the dead and disabled.... | |
 | Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1848 - 470 pages
...other in squadrons of ten and twenty together; they closely engaged, striking with their fore feet, biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious rage, and trampling over those D It was not, however, by such assistance alone, that the cause of Spain and Europe could be effectually... | |
 | Wellington College - 1871 - 250 pages
...control, than, retaining the discipline that they had learnt, they charged each other in squadrons of ten or twenty together ; then closely engaged, striking...down, till the shore in the course of a quarter of an hour was strewn with the dead and disabled. Aid when the British fleet bore out of sight, they could... | |
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... and biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious rage, and trampling over those which were beaten down, till the shore, in the course of a quarter of an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Part of them had been set free on a rising... 
