 | Early English newspapers - 1828 - 758 pages
...tremendous. Our courage revived ; the blood flushed in our cheeks; the parson was breaking in; the moment was critical. Our captain undaunted sprang to the fire-place...daring his master to enter, he ordered an attack, — and an attack indeed was made, sufficiently tremendous to have repelled a more powerful assailant.... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 714 pages
...our cheeks; the parson was breaking in; the moment was critical. Our caplain undaunted sprang to ihe fire-place —seized a heated poker in one hand, and...daring his master to enter, he ordered an attack, — and an attack indeed was made, sufficiently tremendous to have repelled a more powerful assailant.... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...Our courage revived ; the blood flushed in our cheeks ; the parson was breaking in ; the moment was critical. Our captain undaunted sprang to the fire-place...the other. The latter he gave to the captain of the shnrpshootere, and told him to prepare a volley ; when, with the red-hot poker, he fearlessly advanced... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...Our courage revived ; the blood flushed in our cheeks : the parson was breaking in ; the moment was critical. Our captain undaunted sprang to the fireplace...sharpshooters, and told him to prepare a volley ; when with the red hot poker he fearlessly advanced to the window-seat, and daring his master to enter, he ordered... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1853 - 580 pages
...parson was breaking in ; the moment was critical. Our captain undaunted sprang to the fireplane — seized a heated poker in one hand, and a blazing torch...sharpshooters, and told him to prepare a volley ; when with the red hot poker he fearlessly advanced to the window-seat, and daring his master to enter, he ordered... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 576 pages
...Our courage revived ; the blood flushed in our cheeks : the parson was breaking in ; the moment was critical. Our captain undaunted sprang to the fireplace...in one hand, and a blazing torch in the other. The hitter he gave to the captain of the sharpshooters, and told him to prepare a volley ; when with the... | |
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The cheers were tremendous. Our courage revived ; the blood flushed in our cheeks; the parson was breaking in; the moment was critical. Our captain undaunted sprang to the fire-place —seized a heated poker in one hand, and a blazing torch in the other.... 