 | Arthur Collins - Nobility - 1756 - 872 pages
...legal trial. ' As Coventry was going home, they drew about him ; he flood up to the wall, and fnatchd the flambeau out of his fervant's hands ; and with...the other, he defended himfelf fo well, that he got great credit by it. He wounded fome of them ; but was foon difarmed, and then they cut his nofe to... | |
 | William Harris - Great Britain - 1766 - 418 pages
...ftood up to the wall, and fnatched the flambeau out of ' his fervants hands : and with that in the one hand, and * his fword in the other, he defended...all the actions of * his life. He wounded fome of them, but was foon * difarmed : and then they cut his nofe to the bone, to * teach him to remember... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 642 pages
...servant's hands: and with that in the one hand, and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well, that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them ; but was soon disarmed : and then they cut his nose to the coventry-. bone, to teach... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...his servant's hands, and with that in the one hand and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well, that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them, but was soon disarmed; and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him to remember... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...servant's hands : and with that in the one hand, and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well, that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them; but was Coventry-8 soon disarmed : and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1846 - 330 pages
...of his servant's hand, and with that in one hand and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them, but was soon disarmed ; and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him to remember... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...of his servant's hand, and with that in one hand and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them, but was soon disarmed ; and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him to remember... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Ballads, English - 1846 - 322 pages
...of his servant's hand, and with that in one hand and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them, but was soon disarmed ; and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him to remember... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 518 pages
...of his servant's hand, and, with that in one hand and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them, but was soon disarmed ; and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him to remember... | |
 | John Timbs - Astronomy - 1859 - 312 pages
...the servant's hands ; and with that in one hand, and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well, that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of his assailants, but was soon disarmed ; and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him... | |
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He stood up to the wall and snatched the flambeau out of his servant's hand, and, with that in one hand and his sword in the other, he defended himself so well that he got more credit by it than by all the actions of his life. He wounded some of them,... 
