...this was the final answer to threat, and taunt and promise — "Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters, and it is true. So long then as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, so long ye may know that the city holds out. And when all have perished we will devour...

...ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. ' Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters ' they cried, ' and it is true. So long then as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city hold* out. Should God in his wrath doom us to destruction,...

...ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. "Ye call us rateaters and dog-eaters," they cried, " and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be...

...ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. ' Ye call us rateaters and dog-eaters,' they cried, ' and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be...

...ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. " Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters," they cried, " and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be...

...back the taunts of their foes upon their heads. ' Ye call us rat-eaters and dogeaters,' they cried, ' and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be...

...ramparts they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. " Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters," they cried, " and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out." Meanwhile, William the Silent had collected...

...summons to surrender with renewed defiance. " Ye call us rat eaters and dog eaters," they cried, " and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls ye may know that the city holds out And when all has perished but ourselves, be sure...

...The answers to Valdez's proposals were sublimely despairing, but defiant still : " You call us rat and dog eaters, and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear cat mew, or dog bark, in Leyden, we hold out. Even then, when all is perished, should God deny us all...

...they hurled renewed defiance at the enemy. ' Ye call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters,' they cried ; ' and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished but ourselves, be...