 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...through : Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we gallop'd abreast. IL Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place : I turn'd in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shorten'd each stirrup, and set the pique right,... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...: Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we gallop'd abreast. ii. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place : I turn'd in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shorten'd each stirrup, and set the pique right,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 páginas
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 páginas
...through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace —...Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Kebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 páginas
...Shakespeare. 15. I'll look no more, — Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 16. Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace —...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place. Browniny. 17. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride to sink at last.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1868 - 328 páginas
...; Behind shnt the postern, the lights sank to rost, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. ii. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing onr place ; I tnrned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrnp, and set the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 páginas
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 páginas
...; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. • Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lockeren, the cocks crew, and twilight dawned clear;... | |
 | Frederick Martin - 1869 - 304 páginas
...come to a place we wished to avoid above all others — a barrack full of Cossacks. CHAPTER XXII. " Not a word to each other : we kept the great pace,...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." BKOWNINO, Bide from Ghent to Aix, WE were not more tlian a dozen steps from the men, who issued forth... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 páginas
...rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Nock by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place...the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lokeren,(1> the cocks crew, and twilight dawned... | |
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Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. 
