 | John Tillotson - 1865 - 508 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not; my life is at your disposal; here is my sword, plunge...words of the stout burgomaster inspired a new courage in the hearts of those who heard him, and a shout of applause and defiance arose from the famishing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." * * * On the 28th of September, a dove flew into the city, bringing a letter from Admiral Eoisot. In... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1865 - 406 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonored death, which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not. My life is at your disposal. Here is my sword, plunge...body to appease your hunger, but expect no surrender as long as I remain alive." Shouts of enthusiastic defiance and resolution once more responded to his... | |
 | 1866 - 408 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." .... On the 28th of September a dove flew into the cit)7, bringing a letter from Admiral Boisot. In... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." 7. On the 28th of September, a dove flew into the city, bringing a letter from Admiral Boisot. In this... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...divide my flesh among you. Take my body to appease }"our hunger, but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." .... On the 28th of September a dove... | |
 | 1867 - 680 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh among you ; but expect no surrender from me as long as I remain alive !' Cheers ending in sobs greeted this speech,... | |
 | 1867 - 632 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh among you ; but expect no surrender from me as long as 1 remain alive 1' Cheers ending in sobs greeted this speech,... | |
 | Mary Olivia Nutting - 1869 - 508 ページ
...reproaches as he passed through the streets " ' Your menaces move me not,' replied the brave burgomaster ; ' my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive.' " Wretched and desperate as these starving men were, they could not help applauding the magistrate's... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1869 - 956 ページ
...nearer fifty thousand. 1 Hoofd, ix. 381, 382. Bor, vii. $37. only alternative. Your menaces move me not; my life is at your disposal; here is my sword, plunge...body to appease your hunger, but expect no surrender BO long as I remain alive." s The words of the stout burgomaster inspired a new courage in the hearts... | |
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I know that we shall starve if not soon relieved ; but starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh... 
