 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 406 páginas
...present, attempted to disentangle it, but the dying hero stopped him :' It is as well , ' said he, ' as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Meanwhile the pressure upon the enemy was so strenuous and so persistent that, in spite of their superior... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 páginas
...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as " well as it is. I...had rather it should go out of the field with "me." And in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. During this time the... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1890 - 598 páginas
...wound ; Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off", but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.* Meanwhile the army... | |
 | Hugh Craig - 1891 - 200 páginas
...hilt entered the wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ; ' and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." Moore died shortly... | |
 | Charles Stewart Hardinge (2d Viscount) - 1891 - 224 páginas
...wounded side became entangled in his legs. In the act of my unbuckling it, he said in his usual tone, " It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Observing the resolution and composure of his features, I caught at the hope that I might be mistaken... | |
 | Thomas Somerville - 1891 - 320 páginas
...the hilt striking against his wounded shoulder, and began to unbuckle the belt. "No, no, Hardinge, I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" and with his sword girded round him — a sword which he had never disgraced — the dying chief was... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 páginas
...-wound. Captain Hardinge,' a staff officer who was near, 'attempted to take it off; but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ; " — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Sir John Hope,... | |
 | Archibald Forbes - 1896 - 360 páginas
...entangled, and the hilt had entered the wound ; but the dying man said in his usual tone and manner, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." " He was borne," continued Captain Hardinge, P " by six soldiers of the 42nd and Guardsmen, my sash... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 páginas
...hilt entered the wound; Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying : " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ; " and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. — NAPIER. When... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 páginas
...hilt entered the wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ; " and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the field. Notwithstanding this... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
