| John William Cole - Generals - 1856 - 400 pages
...to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; but he stopped him, and said with true soldierlike feelings, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was conveyed to his quarters in Corunna, where he lingered for several... | |
| 1856 - 754 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 tore their dying commander, for in him the soldier... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1860 - 750 pages
...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,...those around him expressed a hope of his recovery. " No,7' said he, " I feel that is impossible." When approaching the ramparts, he several times desired... | |
| Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...Captain Hardinge, a staff-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 ; " and in that manner so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the... | |
| Sir Edward Cust - Europe - 1862 - 332 pages
...Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle it, but, with martial pride, the veteran General forbade him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Major Colborne (afterwards Lord Seton), the chief of his staff, then came... | |
| William Anderson - Heraldry - 1863 - 800 pages
...unbuckling it from his waist, when he said, in his usual tone, and with the true spirit of a soldier, " It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." When the surgeons arrived, he said to them, " You can be of no service to... | |
| Woolwich roy. military acad - 1864 - 588 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." And in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore waa borne from the fight.... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 pages
...Captain Hardinge, a staff-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 ; " and in that manner so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 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;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the... | |
| Readers - 1866 - 408 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 t/wfold with me/'— and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the... | |
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