| Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - 1841 - 334 páginas
...displayed signal bravery, riding to the front, commanded a " halt;" and calling his officers around him, held a council of war as to what was to be done. Several, among whom were Burley and Cleland, Hackston and Hall, Nisbet and myself, were for continuing... | |
| Ferdinand Baudry - 1869 - 126 páginas
...European settlers, the Coreans burn every year all the trees and grass. That evening our missionaries held a council of war as to what was to be done. K"o sail was in sight, and they were forced to come to some decision before the morrow. Out of the... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 686 páginas
...people crossing the scent at the village. ' The shades of night were falling fast,' when we came to a brook flowing from the moorland. Here the scent...a queer group, as we sat in the light of some dead fem that somebody had kindled. Some were sitting on stones ; others kneeling down, drinking from the... | |
| Hendrick Bradley Wright - 1873 - 466 páginas
...After spending the cold and chilly night of December as they best could, in the morning the Indiana held a council of war as to what was to be done with old Mr. Harvey. .The value of his scalp in the British market preponderated the scale against... | |
| Richard Jefferies - 1874 - 334 páginas
...her as merry as herself, and nearly as restless. They slept together of course, and before breakfast held a council of war as to what was to be done. It was finally resolved that they were to bathe, to ride, and to have a row, and go on the pier. But... | |
| Richard Jefferies - 1874 - 328 páginas
...her as merry as herself, and nearly as restless. They slept together of course, and before breakfast held a council of war as to what was to be done. It was finally resolved that they were to bathe, to ride, and to have a row, and go on the pier. But... | |
| 1881 - 410 páginas
...unreasonable endurance of their prisoner, as they deemed it, the authors and ngents of this unique plot held a council of war, as to what was to be done. Since keeping this man in loneliness and darkness had not succeeded in bringing him into a fitting... | |
| Philip O'Sullivan-Beare - 1903 - 300 páginas
...the baggage, saving only those horses which were especially required by the cavalry. Thereupon, Duke held a council of war as to what was to be done. George Oge Bingham thought they should retreat, lest having lost their provisions all should perish... | |
| Gertrude Singleton Mathews - 1917 - 336 páginas
...delightfully thrilling. A rattle would have been disconcerting. No, it was just an aggravating thud. We held a council of .war as to what was to be done. Our first excitement having abated, we admitted that we all had appalling headaches. Our treasure chest... | |
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