 | Thomas Carter - 1861 - Страниц: 642
...passed, he drew himself up to make the usual salute, when a round shot came bounding over the hill, and knocked his forage-cap off his head. The man calmly...sergeant, with another salute, "but a miss is as good as a mile." Not less interesting is the same writer's account of the poor wounded horses: — "One of the... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1861 - Страниц: 228
...passed, he drew himself up to make the usual salute, when a round shot cume bounding over the hill, and knocked his forage-cap off his head. The man calmly...sergeant, with another salute, "but a miss is as good as a mile." Not less interesting is the same writer's account of the poor wounded horses: — "One of the... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1864 - Страниц: 576
...to make the usual salute, when a round shot came bounding over the hill and knocked his forage cap off his head. The man calmly picked up his cap, dusted...the man's coolness, and said to him, ' A near thing thatj my man.' ' Yes, my Lord,' replied the sergeant, with another salute; ' but a miss is as good... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - Страниц: 642
...it on his knee, placed it carefully on his head, and then made the military salute, and all witheut moving a muscle of his countenance. Lord Raglan was...Yes, my Lord,' replied the sergeant, with another saluto; ' but a miss is as good as a mile.' " The French writers remark on the equanimity which never,... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - Страниц: 406
...cap, dusted it on his knee, placed it carefully on his head, and then made the military salute,'and all without moving a muscle of his countenance. Lord...delighted with the man's coolness, and said to him, "A neat thing that, my man !"—"Yes, my lord," replied the sergeant with another salute, " but a miss... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - Страниц: 636
...and then made the military salute, and all without moving a muscle of his countenance. Lord Eaglan was delighted with the man's coolness, and said to...with another salute ; ' but a miss is as good as a mile.' " The French writers remark on the equanimity which never, under the worst circumstances, forsook... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1880 - Страниц: 186
...the hill, and knocked his forage-cap off his head. The man calmly picked up his cap, dusted it on hiu knee, placed it carefully on his head, and then made...delighted with the man's coolness, and said to him, " A neat thing that, my man !" "Yes, my lord," replied the sergeant with another salute, " but a miss is... | |
 | Thomas Carter, William Henry Long - 1893 - Страниц: 796
...passed, he drew himself up to make the usual salute* when a round shot came bounding over the hill, and knocked his forage-cap off his head. The man calmly...sergeant, with another salute, 'but a miss is as good as a mile.'" Not less interesting is the same writer's account of the poor wounded horses : — " One of... | |
 | 1873 - Страниц: 580
...to make the usual salute, when a round shot came bounding over the hill and knocked his forage cap off his head. The man calmly picked up his cap, dusted...with another salute, ' but a miss is as good as a mile.' " individually could redeem the great fault of holding a position that in a military sense was... | |
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A sergeant approached us, carrying canteens of water to take up for the wounded, and as Lord Raglan passed, he drew himself up to make the usual salute, when a round shot came bounding over the hill, and knocked his forage-cap off his head. The man calmly... 