Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Том 16, Брой 136 – Том 18, Брой 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... heard them . This occasioned unspeakable confusion among the Macedonians , and gave new courage to the Tyrians , who now quitted the wall , and charged the enemy hand to hand upon the bridges with such intrepidity and fury , that ...
... heard them . This occasioned unspeakable confusion among the Macedonians , and gave new courage to the Tyrians , who now quitted the wall , and charged the enemy hand to hand upon the bridges with such intrepidity and fury , that ...
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... heard of it , because his own sufferings had probably taught him to feel for those of others . As soon as the poor people were allowed to retire from under the walls , and return to their homes , the gallows which the be- sieged had ...
... heard of it , because his own sufferings had probably taught him to feel for those of others . As soon as the poor people were allowed to retire from under the walls , and return to their homes , the gallows which the be- sieged had ...
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... heard from the walls . The common paleness of fear appeared not upon men who had lost all sense of it . One who was an eye - witness relates that , in the depth of despair , they looked black in the eyes of each other . But in a 8 ...
... heard from the walls . The common paleness of fear appeared not upon men who had lost all sense of it . One who was an eye - witness relates that , in the depth of despair , they looked black in the eyes of each other . But in a 8 ...
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... heard ; it was that of their sheik , who was wholly employed in prayer , and exhorting them to fight for their faith ; and these Mohammedans , amid their torments , answered him with hymns and shouts , and then rushed out against the ...
... heard ; it was that of their sheik , who was wholly employed in prayer , and exhorting them to fight for their faith ; and these Mohammedans , amid their torments , answered him with hymns and shouts , and then rushed out against the ...
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... heard like the pattering of rain after a peal of thun- der . " For five days the batteries continued to play ; and on the 19th there were two breaches in the walls reported practicable . Accordingly , on that day the stern order was ...
... heard like the pattering of rain after a peal of thun- der . " For five days the batteries continued to play ; and on the 19th there were two breaches in the walls reported practicable . Accordingly , on that day the stern order was ...
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