 | Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman - Turkey - 1899 - 418 pages
...closeness and continuity of their line of attack. The foremost host consisted of the refuse of the ranks, a voluntary crowd who fought without order or command,...the Christians was idly wasted on the accumulated throngs. But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious defence. The ditch was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 660 pages
...camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the wa.i ; the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated...were exhausted in this laborious defence : the ditch wai filled with the bodies of the slain ; they supported the foot•teps of their companions ; and... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1902 - 592 pages
...camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the wall: the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet, of tlie Christians was idly wasted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were wasted... | |
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1908 - 528 pages
...impulse drove them onward to the wall; the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and root a dart, not a bullet of the Christians was idly wasted...they supported the footsteps of their companions: aad of this devoted vanguard, dae death was more serviceable than the life. Under their respective... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onward to the wall ; foot back, Or who his spoil of beauty defense; the ditch was filled with the bodies of the slain; they supported the footsteps of their companions;... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onward to the wall; B (B @ wa«ted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - Austria - 1914 - 656 pages
...camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The comtoon impulse drove them onwards to the wall; the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated...strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious defense : the ditch was filled with the bodies of the slain; they supported the footsteps of their... | |
 | English literature - 1788 - 534 pages
...Chrirtians, was idly wafted on the accumulated throng. But their Ctrength and ammunition were exhaufted in this laborious defence : the ditch was filled with the bodies of the Chin j they fupported the footfteps of thuir companions ; and of this devoted vanguard, the death was... | |
 | 1890 - 340 pages
...camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the wall; the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated; and not a dart, nor a bullet, of the Christians, was idly wasted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and... | |
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The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the Christians, was idly wasted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in... 
