 | 1809 - 604 páginas
...moment hesitated to re-man the guns ; Augustina rushed forward over the wounded, and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26 pounder j then jumping upon the gun, made, a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege,... | |
 | 1810 - 928 páginas
...wounded and slain, snatched a match (rom the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired fired off a 26 pounder. Then, jumping upon the gun, she made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the sie-.'e, and her fellowcitizens, stimulated by this daring act of intiepidily to fresh exertions, instantly... | |
 | 1812 - 498 páginas
...citizens hesitated to re-man the guns. August! ua sprung forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artillery-man, and fired off a six and twenty pounder; then, jump ing upon the gun, she made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
 | 1812 - 570 páginas
...moment hesitated to re-man the guns ; Augustina rushed forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26pounder, then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1820 - 958 páginas
...moment, hesitated to reman the guns. Augustina, rushing forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26 pounder. Then, jumping upon the gun, she made a solemn TOW never to quit it alive during the siege,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 844 páginas
...the citizens hesitated to re-man the guns. Augustina sprung forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a six-andtwenty-pounder ; then, jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
 | 1826 - 372 páginas
...moment hesitated to reman the guns ; Augustina rushed forward over the woonded and the slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and...off a twenty-six pounder; then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege ; and having stimulated her fellow citizens,... | |
 | 1828 - 188 páginas
...when a young woman of the lower class, who had come with refreshments, seeing the emergency, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26 pounder, declaring she never would quit the gun alive : at the sight of this the Spaniards rushed... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 páginas
...the citizens hesitated to re-man the guns. Augustina sprung forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a six-and-twenty pounder ; then, jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 páginas
...citizens hesitated to re-man the guns; — Augustina sprang forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a six-and-twenty pounder ; then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
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Augustina sprung forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a six-and-twenty pounder; then, jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege. 
