 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...Viscount) Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; when he said with soldierly feeling, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " His serenity was so striking, that Hardinge began to hope the wound was... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 318 pages
...against him — " the sword he had never disgraced " — the General said faintly, " No, Harding ; it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they bore their dying commander, for in him the soldier... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...painfully inconvenient, he refused the kind offices of those who would have removed it, remarking — " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was removed in a blanket by six soldiers, who evinced their sympathy... | |
 | Charles Mac Farlane - 1853 - 550 pages
...wound. Hardinge would have unbuckled the belt, and have taken, it o^Vro&.xSoffc : dying soldier said, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Hardinge again began to hope, and to say that he hoped the wound would not... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 702 pages
...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' Tt 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 bome from the fight."... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 368 pages
...sword was driven into the wound — an officer destined to celebrity in future times, CAPTAIN HARDINGE, attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed,...should go off the field with me." He was carried by the soldier» towards the town ; but though the pain of the wound soon became excessive, such was the serenity... | |
 | Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 440 pages
...a staff officer, who 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 to a soldier, he was borne from the fight... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...Hardinge, a staff officer, who 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.' His strength was failing fast, and life was just extinct, when, with an... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...the field, the hilt of his sword was driven into the wound ; an officer attempted to take it off, hut the dying hero exclaimed, ' It is as well as it is...had rather it should go off the field with me.' He continued to converse calmly, and even cheerfully; once only his voice faltered, as he spoke of his... | |
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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 to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
