 | 1822 - 586 ページ
...remain down, when the order was given to rise and return the fire. The first rank fired, then kneeled down while the second fired. They made each bullet...enemy's heads, a shower of bullets fell on his ranks. *This fact I find stated also in the " Scots Worthies," p. 408 fidlinb. Edit. Many a gallant man tumbled... | |
 | William Craig Brownlee - 1824 - 378 ページ
...remain down, when the order was given to rise, and return the fire. Tl:e first rank fired, then kneeled down, while the second fired. They made each bullet...several minutes along the line of the covenanters. Clavers attempted to cross the morass, and break our centre. " Spearmen! to the front," I could hear... | |
 | John Howie - 1828 - 650 ページ
...remain down, when the order was given to rise, and return the fire. The first rank fired, then kneeled down, while the second fired. They made each bullet...heads, a shower of bullets fell on his ranks. Many a galluut man tumbled on the heath. Tim fire was incessant. It resembled one blazing sheet of flame,... | |
 | William Craig Brownlee - 1833 - 204 ページ
...watched, with attention, the approach of the foe ; and at the moment when they halted to fire, ihe whole cen-tre of the Covenanters, at a signal, dropt...ranks. Many a gallant man tumbled on the heath. The struck, with advantage, by hi» sword. He grasped the soldier by the collar, pushed him backwards,... | |
 | 952 ページ
...remain down, when the order was given to rise and return the fire. The first rank fired, then kneeled down while the second fired. They made each bullet...several minutes, along the line of the Covenanters. Clavers attempted to cross the morass, and break our centre. " Spearmen ! to the front" — I could... | |
 | John Howie - 1839 - 660 ページ
...remain down, when the order was given to rise, and return the fire. The first rank fired, then kneeled down, while the second fired. They made each bullet...several minutes, along the line of the Covenanters. Clavers attempted to cross the morass, and break our centre. ' Spearmen ! to the front,' — I could... | |
 | John Howie - 1863 - 680 ページ
...was given to rise, and return the fire. The first rank fired, then kneeled down, while the aecvtnd fired. They made each bullet tell. As often as the...rolling smoke was carried over the enemy's heads, n shower of bullets Jell on his ranks. Many a gallant man tumbled on the heath. The fire was incessant.... | |
 | 1869 - 436 ページ
...down, when the order was given to rise and return the fire. The first rank fired, and then kneeled down while the second fired. They made each bullet...several minutes along the line of the Covenanters. Clavers attempted to cross the morass and break our centre. " Spear men ! to the front"—I could hear... | |
 | John Cheap (fict.name.) - 1876 - 508 ページ
...seen down when the order was girao to rue, and return the fire. The first flank fired, then kneeling down while the second fired. They made each bullet tell. As often as the lazy rolling smoke wai carried over the enemy's head, a shower of bullets fell Sn his ranks. Many a gallant man tumbled... | |
 | 1877 - 492 ページ
...seen down when the order was giren to rise, and return the fire. The first flank fired, then kneeling down while the second fired. They made each bullet tell. As often as the lazy rolling smoke wai carried over the enemy's head, a shower of bullets fell 3n his ranks. Many a gallant man tumbled... | |
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... foot dropped on the heath. Not a man was seen to remain down, when the order was given to rise, and return the fire. The first rank fired, then kneeled down, while the second fired. They made each bullet tell. As often as the lazy rolling smoke was... 
