| 1896 - 858 páginas
...this was the final answer to threat, and taunt and promise — "Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters, and it is true. So long then as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, so long ye may know that the city holds out. And when all have perished we will devour our left arms,... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1856 - 604 páginas
...magistrate, and again ascended tower and battlement to watch for the coming fleet. From the ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. "Ye call us...within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 páginas
...they spurned the summons to surrender. Leyden was sublime in its despair." " From the ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. ' Ye call us...cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city hold* out. Should God in his wrath doom us to destruction, even then will we maintain ourselves forever... | |
| Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1857 - 722 páginas
...magistrate, and again ascended tower and battlement, to watch for the coming fleet. From the ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. ' Ye call us...within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 586 páginas
...magistrate, and again ascended tower and battlement to watch for the coming fleet. From the ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. " Ye call us rateaters and dog-eaters/' they cried, cc and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that... | |
| John Tillotson - 1865 - 508 páginas
...magistrate, and again ascended tower and battlement to watch for the coming fleet. From the ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. " Ye call us...within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining... | |
| Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1865 - 406 páginas
...On the ramparts yesterday Ursel heard a defiance given to the enemy by some of the citizens. " You call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters," they cried, " and it is true. -So long, then, as ye hear a dog bark or a cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished... | |
| Mary Olivia Nutting - 1869 - 502 páginas
...enthusiasm they mounted the ramparts, and hurled back the taunts of their foes upon their heads. ' Ye call us rat-eaters and dogeaters,' they cried,...within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1869 - 956 páginas
...battlement to watch for the coming fleet. From the ramparte they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. " Te call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters," they cried, "...within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining... | |
| Dolores CAZALLA, Elizabeth CHARLES - 1870 - 466 páginas
...On the ramparts yesterday Urscl heard a defiance given to the enemy by some of the citizens. " You call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters," they cried, " and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear a dog bark or a cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished... | |
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