Full Text Search Details
...rites; wherof to runne a long-breathed careere, both so faire and large a field might envite mee, and my in-burning spirits would encite mee, if I w... ...gientem circuit hastam. -- LUCAN, lib. vi. 220. Even so the wound-enraged Austrian beare, On whom a Moore hath thir'ld his slinged speare, Wheeles ... ...den surprises, that a moneth before they could bring their Armie into the field, they would give them warning, by the continuall sound of their comm... ...nne commanded, the Emperour having besieged him in person, and Bartholemy Lieutenant to the saide Earle, being come foorth of his hold to parlie, wa... ...der, they will here and there wildely scatter themselves through the vast field of imaginations. Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumnen ahenis http:... ...ple of Francis Marquis of Salum hath seemed remarkable unto me: who being Lieutenant General unto Francis our King, and over all his forces, which he... ...at enemie soever he be, that is overcome by the King in person, or by his Lieutenant, is exempted from all composition of ransome or mercie. So abov... ...more advantage be cast at them. The Lord of Montluc, late one of the Lord Marshals of France, having lost his sonne, who died in the Iland of Madera,...

Full Text Search Details
...asting Frost. Medicean Tuileries, how changed since it was a peaceful Tile field! Or is the ground itself fate-stricken, accursed: an Atreus’ Palace; ... ...has prowled indefati- gable over France, in days now ending; and, in freer field, 18 The French Revolution—V olume Two might have earned instead of p... ...mentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—much to the disad- vantage of the former. In the manual kind, where ... ...and bone. By the law of the case, no man can pretend to be the pitifullest lieutenant of militia, till he have first verified, to the satisfaction of ... ...and, might lie Counter-Revolu- tion itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u... ...hension, with mutual exaspera- tion. It was but in these days that certain Austrian troops, marching peaceably across an angle of this region, seemed ... ...oniteur, Seance du 9 Aout 1790.) A matter of mere diplomacy it proved; the Austrian Kaiser, in haste to get to Belgium, had bargained for this short c... ...man may verily exist? An olive-complexioned taciturn man; for the present, Lieutenant in the Artillery-service, who once sat studying Mathematics at B... ...vil war! Let some Rebecqui, or other the like hot-clear Patriot; let some ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Aubry,’ if Rebecqui is busy elsewhere, raise instantaneo...

Full Text Search Details
... going to whistle for the sparrows on that pipe, I suppose—” “It grew in a field of mine which bears guns,” replied Michu. “Look! this is how I sow th... ...er, in a voice of some emotion. “No one,” she replied. “Marianne is in the field with the cow, and Gaucher—” “Where is Gaucher?” he asked. “I don’t kn... ...rn all events to his own profit, was leading his friend Grevin to a little field in the English garden, a lonely spot in the park, favorable for a sec... ...as unmasked Bonaparte’s intentions—he will soon be em- peror. The late sub-lieutenant means to create a dynasty! This time his life is in actual dange... ...ce. 57 Balzac Corentin had a friend in Peyrade, the old pupil of the last lieutenant of police; but he kept a good many of his secrets from him. Fouc... ...ged to return there,” said the ex-minister, precisely as Napoleon told his lieutenants to explore the field of Austerlitz on which he intended to fall... ...ss on their horses. The carriage was now surrounded by a mass of generals, marshals, and other offic- ers, all extremely brilliant in appearance, who ... ...,’ interrupted Fouche. ‘In all probability the battle is now going on; the Austrians outnumber us; Genoa has surrendered; Massena has committed the gr... ... only saved by a division sent to his support. Ott is in full retreat. The Austrian line is broken.’ “‘When did the fight take place?’ asked Carnot. “...

Full Text Search Details
... on either side so near together in some places, that there is no room for fields, or buildings, or peasants’ huts. Nothing lies between them but the ... ... by virtue of the slowly-working laws of seniority. He had been made a sub-lieutenant in 1802, but it was not until 1829 that he became a major, in sp... ...nder his old age comfortable. Till the eve of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colo- nel of cavalry it was fair to suppose that it was his ambi... ...nt could overhear him. There was a burst of laughter at the words, for the lieutenant’s father cringed to all the powers that be; he was a man of supp... ...nd Army, then the masters of Vienna, in which he said that like Medea, the Austrian 9 Balzac princes had slain their children with their own hands; G... ...housewife in her dwelling at a time when every one was hard at work in the fields, he stopped before a little cluster of cottages that stood about a p... ... his guide was taking him, Genestas beheld scattered farms and well-tilled fields and plantations of trees in thorough order. It might have been a lit... ...led down three armies one after another, and taken the conceit out of four Austrian generals; one of them, an old man who had white hair, had been roa... ...head out of the window and the sight of him was enough; they gulp down the Austrians at Marengo like a whale swallowing gudgeons! Haouf! The French Vi...

Full Text Search Details
...ntcornet commanded the cuirassiers at the battle of Essling (called by the Austrians Gross-Aspern), and came near perishing when that noble corps was ... ...lorious resolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of... ...d myself to write the “Scenes from Military Life,” led me to many a battle-field once wet with the blood of France and her enemies. Among them I went ... ...overed with turf, certain undulations that reminded me of the furrows in a field of lucern. I asked the reason of it, thinking I should hear of some n... ...partee, but quicker still with a blow. He may have been superb on a battle-field; in a household he is simply intolerable. He knows no love but barrac... ...The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courage and obsti... ...ahead of you?” All the world knows the order which the Emperor sent to his lieutenant by M. de Sainte-Croix, who swam the Danube three times: “Die or ... ...e the unjust steward feel that he was far stronger in the community than a lieutenant-general driven into retirement. If this history provided no othe... ...some sixty thousand francs a year in the Funds and the salary of a retired lieutenant-general. Though Napo- leon had made him a count of the Empire an...

Full Text Search Details
...nd I loaded my sack be- fore their eyes. Marin, a brigadier of cavalry and lieutenant of the body guards, who was there to superintend the opera- tion... ...f all the arrierebans of the kingdom, and acquired great reputation in the field for his valour and skill. With Cardinal Richelieu he was intimate wit... ... remaining still in weak health, was deemed by the King unable to take the field again, and his army given over to the command of another General. M. ... ... army of the Rhine in place of M. de Lorges. Every one set out to take the field. The Duc de la Feuillade in passing by Metz, to join the army in Germ... ... daughter, who, on the voyage home to France, gained the heart of Villers, lieutenant of the vessel, and became his wife in Asia-Minor, near the ruins... ...ay. Two cruel effects of gambling were noticed at this time. Reineville, a lieutenant of the body-guard, a general officer distinguished in war, very ... ...ought a duel against the Comtes de Rontzau, a Dane, and Schwartzenberg, an Austrian. Uzes gave himself up, but the Comte d’Albert did not do so for a ... ...s Confessor, who had been given to him by the Queen, and who was a zealous Austrian. Cardinal Portocarrero was charged with this duty, and he succeede... ...wo ecclesias- tics, with no friend near whose opinion he could consult, no Austrian at hand to confer with, and no Spaniard who was not opposed to Aus...

Full Text Search Details
...s withdrawn from the land to a sight of great splendour on board. This was Lieutenant Bundy, the guardian of Her Majesty’s mails, who issued from his ... ... evening afterwards:“they respect it, sir. ”The authority of Her Majesty’s lieutenant on board the steamer is stated to be so tremendous, that he may ... ...an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanish ground. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but humbly in the providor’s boat; that officer going on ... ...pered out of those plate-glass windows— the mitred bishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hat- ted abbes which they have borne in their time—the... ...a struggle. We took a drive into what may be called the country; where the fields are rocks, and the hedges are stones—passing by the stone gardens of... ...olours, are moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the B... ...of little forts, rose up on the hill to our right, with a long view of the fields and gardens stretching from it, and camels arriving with their burde... ...complis:perhaps he remembered that one of them was as big as Lincoln’s Inn Fields. But, the truth is, nobody was seriously moved . . . And why shou...

Full Text Search Details
...f delusions, confusions, falsehoods, and ab- surdities, covering the whole field of Life! A thing that fills us with astonishment, almost, if it were ... ...at far- distant distracted cloudy imbroglio of Paganism,—more like a cloud-field than a distant continent of firm land and facts! It is no longer a re... ... reality, yet it was one. We ought to under- stand that this seeming cloud-field was once a reality; that not poetic allegory, least of all that duper... ...eon has words in him which are like Austerlitz Battles. Louis Fourteenth’s Marshals are a kind of poetical men withal; the things T urenne says are fu... ...r of human things. Nevertheless look, for example, at Napoleon! A Corsican lieutenant of artillery; that is the show of him: yet is he not obeyed, wor... ...tion is: “T riumph to the French Revolution; assertion of it against these Austrian Simulacra that pretend to call it a Simulacrum!” Withal, however, ... ... large. Chief- consulship, Emperorship, victory over Europe;—till the poor Lieutenant of La Fere, not unnaturally, might seem to him- self the greates... ... in Facts, took to believing in Semblances; strove to connect himself with Austrian Dynasties, Popedoms, with the old false Feudalities which he once ...

Full Text Search Details
...As for Athos, they believed him to be dead, and left him very quiet on the field of battle, not thinking it worth the trouble to carry him away. That’... ...t that pe- riod, a sort of building without a window, surrounded by barren fields—an accessory to the Preaux-Clercs, and which was generally employed ... ...ike a dead mass. D’Artagnan then cast an anxious and rapid glance over the field of battle. Aramis had killed one of his adversaries, but the other pr... ...cisely at this moment that M. de Treville, on leaving the residence of the Lieutenant-Criminel and the gov- 150 The Three Musketeers ernor of the For... ...g better than an opportunity to distinguish him- self under the eye of the lieutenant general. In fact the Rochellais had made a sortie during the nig... ...chomberg, against the Duc d’Angouleme. MM. Bassompierre and Schomberg were marshals of France, and claimed their right of commanding the army under th... ...ported the Duc d’Angouleme, whom the king, at his in- stigation, had named lieutenant general. The result was that to prevent MM. Bassompierre and Sch... ...ened France triumphed, all his influence would be lost. Spanish policy and Austrian policy would have their repre- sentatives in the cabinet of the Lo...

Full Text Search Details
...ing the tables. The Baroness had an ardent admirer in her brother-in- law, Lieutenant-General Hulot, the venerable Colonel of the Grenadiers of the Im... ...the beauty, the bitter fruit to the splendid flower. Lisbeth worked in the fields, while her cousin was indulged; and one day, when they were alone to... ... inferior offi- cial at the War Office. Through the interest of the famous lieutenant-general—made marshal of France six months be- fore his death—thi... ...w much each party has stolen from the other. There is not time in the open field to measure the corn as we do in the Paris market, or the hay as it is... ...dogs, and everything that is most eighteenth century, there is no longer a lieutenant of police.” “How can we make them love us?” Hulot wondered to hi... ...th a woman four or five years older than himself, as yellow as a bundle of field peas, and—?” “I would far rather pawn my diamonds,” said Hortense. “O... ...nce, the Imperial Guard is immortal.” “I am the last of the first batch of Marshals,” said the Prince. “Listen, Hector. You do not know the extent of ... ...s. All honor to those we left there!” and the old man lifted his hat. “The Austrians were amazed at the dash of it.—The Emperor made the man you saw a...

Full Text Search Details
...ers, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here? 14 Moby Dick But look! here come more crow... ...e winds howled, and the cordage rang, his steady notes were heard,— “Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the ... ...f a whale- ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle- fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies’ plaudits?... ...overian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperi... ...d and fear- less as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over th... ...ten, the statement is happily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851... ...hee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act 533 Herman Melville under orders. Look thou, underling! ...

Full Text Search Details
...anoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperia... ...and adoring cherubim! Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 187 aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over th... ...tten, the statement is happily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851... ..., that over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies and Potters’ Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and ... ...eat admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and lieutenants. Ha! what’s this? epaulets! epaulets! the epaulets all come cro... ...hee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders. Look thou, underling! that thou obeyest min...

Full Text Search Details
...er perceived the jovial irony and laughed. “It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsaritsin Meadow.” “What?” asked the commander. At that m... ...dvisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops ar- rived from Russ... ...to the ranks,” said the captain softly. “Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? If a soldier, he should be dressed in reg... ...e caleche galloped the suite and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutuzov sat an Austrian general, in a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian ... ... black ones. The caleche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutuzov and the Austrian general were talking in low voices and Kutuzov smiled slightly as ... ... “Where? At Bykov’s, at the rat’s… I knew it,” replied a piping voice, and Lieutenant Telyanin, a small officer of the same squadron, entered the room... ...ving?” he asked. (Rook was a young horse Telyanin had sold to Rostov.) The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the face; hi... ...t and saw Telyanin’s horse at the porch. In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of sausages and a bottle of wine. “Ah, y... ...r side of the Enns the enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of the rearguard ...

Full Text Search Details
... preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors—the Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent the night ten miles f... ... Olmutz and next morning were to come straight to the review, reaching the field at Olmutz by ten o’clock. That day Nicholas Rostov received a letter ... ...ioned near Olmutz and the camp swarmed with well-pro- visioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering all sorts of tempt- ing wares. The Pavlograds held f... .... They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the of- ficers at e... ...m early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets moved and hal... ...k all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drown up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, be... ...ully while Captain Prince Andrew, for his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskoy. More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future... ...isen above the general who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. “... ...he unwritten code of subordina- tion—looked so fixedly at the presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to say to the adjuta...

Full Text Search Details
.... le Baron Besenval (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out, the May evening fades; and... ...are sent for, to do statute-labour, to pay statute-taxes; to fatten battle-fields (named ‘Bed of honour’) with their bod- ies, in quarrels which are n... ...he ‘five hundred thou- sand’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an e... ...will never get a Navy, I believe.” How touching also was this: “If I were Lieutenant of Police, I would prohibit those Paris cabriolets.” (Journal de... ...lances, shalt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,—pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, al... ...hat is toward. Human patience, in wet buckskins, has its limits. Bodyguard Lieutenant, M. de Savonnieres, for one moment, lets his temper, long provok... ...and bone. By the law of the case, no man can pretend to be the pitifullest lieutenant of militia, till he have first verified, to the satisfaction of ... ...mmand, might lie Counter-Revolution itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u... ...rehension, with mutual exasperation. It was but in these days that certain Austrian troops, march- ing peaceably across an angle of this region, seeme...

Full Text Search Details
... the smoke, letting it escape from his hand- some mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an of- ficer in the Semenov regiment with whom Boris was t... ... not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and thirty,” said he, lookin... ... heart of affairs and of the world— is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk consider characteris- tic ... ...in some Swed- ish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and o... ...mmander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred mile... ...er perceived the jovial irony and laughed. “It would not be turned off the field even on the T saritsin Meadow.” “What?” asked the commander. At that ... ...dvisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops arrived from Russia... ...to the ranks,” said the captain softly. “Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? If a soldier, he should be dressed in reg... ...Where? At Bykov’s, at the rat’s... I knew it,” replied a piping voice, and Lieutenant T elyanin, a small officer of the same squadron, entered the roo...

Full Text Search Details
...eral officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field officers of Vol- unteers, that I can think of. Of the graduates from ... ...es the full complement of officers, there were at least four brevet second lieutenants. I recorded therefore my first choice, dragoons; second, 4th in... ...ere possessed of disabilities which entirely incapacitated them for active field service. They had the moral courage to proclaim it, too. They were ri... ...ter my arrival at Bethel I re- ceived a letter from a classmate and fellow lieutenant in the 4th, informing me of the circumstances related above, and... ... leave. Accordingly, at the end of the twenty days, I reported for duty to Lieutenant Ewell, commanding at Jefferson Barracks, handing him at the same... ... the buffalo. There was not at that time a single habi- tation, cultivated field, or herd of domestic animals, between Corpus Christi and Matamoras. I... ...urn out and help apprehend the runaway slave of a South- ern man. Northern marshals became slave-catchers, and Northern courts had to contribute to th... ...lockade. She also joined, at first, with France and Spain in setting up an Austrian prince upon the throne in Mexico, totally disre- garding any right... ...very soon withdrew from the armed intervention for the establishment of an Austrian prince upon the throne of Mexico; but the governing people of thes...

Full Text Search Details
...rench be- cause he could not restrain his wish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war ... ...elt the danger of extending his line, that he sought a battle and that his marshals advised him to stop at Smolensk, and of making similar statements ... ...can historians attribute such con- 5 Tolstoy ceptions to Napoleon and his marshals, or such plans to the Russian commanders. All the facts are in fla... ...ace – Book Ten While disputes and intrigues were going on about the future field of battle, and while we were looking for the French— having lost touc... ...tered Alpatych to himself and started on his journey, looking round at the fields of yellow rye and the still-green, thickly growing oats, and at othe... ...hem- selves of Kutuzov’s absence and of the fine weather. A short, swarthy lieutenant colonel of hussars with thick mustaches and whiskers rode up to ... ...was not on his Serene High- ness’ staff but was himself a new arrival. The lieutenant colo- nel turned to a smart orderly, who, with the peculiar cont... ...? His Serene Highness? I expect he’ll be here soon. What do you want?” The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mus- tache at the orderly’... ... who crossed the Vistula,” he wrote further of the Russian war, “half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburg...

Full Text Search Details
...leon’s wars serve to confirm this rule. In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of ... ...e itself. To strain the facts to fit the rules of history: to say that the field of battle at Borodino remained in the hands of the Russians, or that ... ... two, an officer and a Cossack. But it is not presupposable that it is the lieutenant colonel himself,” said the esaul, who was fond of using words th... ... see the French. Immediately beyond the forest, on a downward slope, lay a field of spring rye. To the right, beyond a steep ravine, was a small villa... ...ad come to the edge of the forest it was noticeably growing light over the field. Denisov talked in whis- pers with the esaul and the Cossacks rode pa... ...th a tranquil look on his hand- some, plump, white face. It was one of the marshals. His eye fell on Pierre’s large and striking figure, and in the ex... ...d plans which guided the army, as well as the military genius shown by his marshals. The retreat from Malo-Y aroslavets when he had a free road into a... ... the army he left behind. Then we are told of the greatness of soul of the marshals, especially of Ney—a greatness of soul consisting in this: that he...

Full Text Search Details
...out in open battle. Sparring and skirmishing took place along the pleasant fields that lead from the University gate down to the broad and shining wat... ... diamond aigrette (valued at two hundred thousand tomauns, and bought from Lieutenant Vicovich, who had received it from Dost Mahomed), with a simple ... ...rated colonel of the Irish Brigade, cre- ated a Marquis by Napoleon on the field of Austerlitz! “Marquis,” said I, “the country which disowns you is p... ...ress Josephine, at Malmaison (whom we loved a thousand times more than her Austrian successor, a sandy-haired woman, between ourselves, with an odious... ...—an excellent, gentle creature, quite unlike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nich... ...he crowd, in which stood Ney, Murat, Lannes, the Prince of Wagram, and the Austrian ambassador, we showed to the beau monde of the French capital, I f... ...inly did not shine in the drawing-room, however brilliant they were in the field of battle. The Emperor always asked me to take wine with him, and was... ...es were worth a thou- 56 Thackeray sand guineas each, the coachman a late lieutenant-colonel of cavalry: the whole ring could not boast a more elegan... ...e and cutlass did the rest of the bloody work. Rumford, the gigantic first-lieutenant of the “Dettingen,” was cut down by Commo- dore Bowie’s own swor...

Full Text Search Details
...say he once drove an Emperor and a King, a Prince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond... ...an gave up the ghost and bequeathed him little besides a law-suit with the Austrian Government, and the care of Carinthia Jane, the second child of th... ...he girl was born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was chris- tened Carinthia Jane. She was her old fat... ...sed him, so that he would not have been unwilling to see Chillon enter the Austrian service, which the young man was inclined for, subsequent to his r... ...ith wild wavings and shouts of sunrise. They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life. A ... ...es and spires, and lower finally to the whole valley of the foaming river, field and river seeming in imagination rolled out from the hand of the head... ...re was the an- nouncement of the marriage of Chillon John Kirby Levellier, Lieutenant in the King’s Own Hussars, and Henrietta, daugh- ter of Admiral ... ... to sound sense in the dismissal of ‘the fiddler,’ notoriously the woman’s lieutenant, or more; and nightly the revelry closed at the great gaming tab... ...of an established superior; her brows were troubled; she was, therefore, a lieutenant elevated from a lower grade; and, to his thinking, conducted the...

Full Text Search Details
... D., in the family, owning a com- fortable demesne of spacious garden, and field enough for two cows, still green and intact, among modern buildings a... ...African station.” “What, is he in the navy?” “Yes,” said the boy proudly, “Lieutenant Ernescliffe. He got his promotion last week. My father was in th... ...e are inseparable, so they are gone with Hector to have a shipwreck in the field.” “And your other sisters?” “Margaret has ratted—she is going to driv... ...there he is,” as she spied Hector peeping over the gate which led from the field into the garden. It was the first time that he had been to Dr. May’s ... ...ing been appointed to the frigate Alcestis, had cho- sen him as one of his lieutenants, and offered a nomination as naval cadet for his brother. He ha... ...ld be a possession of joy for ever. Captain Gordon contrived to afford his lieutenant another fortnight’s leave, perhaps because he was in dread of lo... ... And there shall be Ethel’s sharp face full of indescribable things as she marshals her children, and Richard shall be curate, and read in his steady ... ...s, I ought to start from last night at twelve o’clock, when she was at the Austrian Ambassador’s ball, and came home at two; but she was up by eight—s...

Full Text Search Details
.... le Baron Besenval (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out, the May evening fades; and... ...are sent for, to do statute-labour, to pay statute-taxes; to fatten battle-fields (named ‘Bed of honour’) with their bodies, in quarrels which are not... ...urtiers there. It is twenty years, gone Christmas-day, since Lord Chester- field, summing up what he had noted of this same France, wrote, and sent of... ...icts, why not, from our own Oeil-de-Boeuf Dignitaries, our Princes, Dukes, Marshals, make a thing we could call Plenary Court; and there, so to speak,... ...lances, shalt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,— pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, a... ...hat is toward. Human patience, in wet buckskins, has its limits. Bodyguard Lieutenant, M. de Savonnieres, for one moment, lets his temper, long pro- v... ...(Janvier 1790), p. 161-165.) The King, with Monsieur, with Minis- ters and Marshals, is waiting to receive him: He “is come,” in his highflown chivalr...

Full Text Search Details
...’ Why should we quarrel with our existence, here as it lies before us, our field and inheritance, to make or mar, for better or for worse; in which, t... ...d received from the empress a heavy gold chain with her likeness, took the Austrian side along with some of his sons-in-law and daughters. My father h... ... dignity and grace in the daily intercourse of life. For it was the king’s lieutenant who was quartered on us; and he, although a military person, had... ...dren. The many affairs which were settled before the tribunal of the royal lieutenant had quite a peculiar charm, from his mak- ing it a point to acco... ...Who al- lowed you to open that box?” he asked, with all his air of a royal lieutenant. I had not much to say for myself, and he immediately pronounced... ...ll: from him was developed the warrior and the ruler. Those who tilled the field bound themselves to the soil, erected dwellings and barns to preserve... ... conquered enemy, is natural; that men con- cluded a peace upon the battle-field among the ranks of the slain may easily be conceived; that they shoul... ...itary marshal holding the Saxon sword upwards in his right hand; the field-marshals, as leaders of the imperial guard, riding behind the carriage; the...

Full Text Search Details
...ss intricate the brakes, wherein abide Those animals, that hate the cultur’d fields, Betwixt Corneto and Cecina’s stream. Here the brute Harpies ... ...Exclaiming, “Lano! not so bent for speed Thy sinews, in the lists of Toppo’s field.” And then, for that perchance no longer breath Suffic’d him, of hi... ... And sharp and eager driveth on the storm With arrowy hurtling o’er Piceno’s field, Whence suddenly the cloud shall burst, and strike Each helpless Bi... ...ce liker seem’d To glass than water. Not so thick a veil In winter e’er hath Austrian Danube spread O’er his still course, nor Tanais far remote The D... ...transcendent, thus my virtue fail’d Unequal. “This is Spirit from above, Who marshals us our upward way, unsought; And in his own light shrouds him;. ... ...rides, And left me on the way with those twain spirits, Who were such mighty marshals of the world. When he beyond us had so fled mine eyes No ne... ...ily. v. 127. The great baron.] The Marchese Ugo, who resided at Florence as lieutenant of the Emperor Otho III, gave many of the chief families licen...

Full Text Search Details
...fective share of attention and su perintendence to all parts of this vast field; or he must at least be capable of discerning and choosing out, from ... ...nion which prevails in the nation makes itself manifest as prevailing, and marshals its hosts in the presence of the government, which is thus enabled... ... existing constituency, have by their writings, or their exertions in some field of public useful ness, made themselves known and approved by a few p... ... in quality by the operation of the system, would no longer have the whole field to them selves. They would indeed outnumber the others, as much as t... ...ted in the crown (or, speaking practically, in one of themselves, the lord lieutenant) being made use of only as a means of excluding any one who it i... ...be enabled to use some of them as tools for the enslavement of others. The Austrian court has now for a whole generation made these tactics its princi...