 They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back!  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 281820Full view - About this book
 | Sherwin Cody - 1917 - 394 pages
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back! Frontde-Bceuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again to the... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 488 pages
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic form above 10 the press. They throng again to the breach, and the pass is disputed hand to hand, and man to man.... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 424 pages
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back! Frontde-Bceuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above 10 the press. They throng again to... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 424 pages
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven ov|c.the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! Frontde-Bceuf heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic form above 10 the press. They throng again... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1919 - 520 pages
...down the barriers with axes. — His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. — They have made a breach...the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust backl — Front-de-Bceuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - 1919 - 360 pages
...barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. They have made a breach in the barriers! they rush in ! they are thrust back! Front de Boeuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again to the... | |
 | John Calvin Metcalf, Sarah Withers, Mrs. Hetty S. Browne - 1919 - 458 pages
...they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers^they rush in — they are thrust back! Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; I see his gigantic... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1920 - 512 pages
...in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back 1 — Front-de-Bosuf heads the defend ersi I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng...again to the breach, and the pass is disputed hand to hands and man to man. God of Jacob ! it is the meeting of two fierce tides — the conflict of two... | |
 | Edwin Atkins Grozier, Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate, Charles Henry Lincoln - 1920 - 338 pages
...down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in...barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back! Front-de-Bceuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again to the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers, they rush in, they are thrust back! Front de Bceuf heads the defenders. I see his gigantic form above the press. -They throng again to... | |
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