 | Léony Guilgault - Civil service - 1885 - 240 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 was borne from the fight.... | |
 | James Macaulay - Adventure and adventurers - 1885 - 458 pages
...Captain Hardinge, 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... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 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... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1890 - 598 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, Moore was borne from the... | |
 | Charles Stewart Hardinge (2d viscount) - Great Britain - 1891 - 224 pages
...wounded side became entangled 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... | |
 | Hugh Craig - Adventure and adventurers - 1891 - 200 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... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Books and reading - 1893 - 444 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... | |
 | Archibald Forbes - Great Britain - 1896 - 360 pages
...entangled, and the hilt had 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 548 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... | |
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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. 
