 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 pages
...ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of pease. It is easy to imagine with what tears grace was said...evening. There was little sleep on either side of the vail. The bonfires shone bright along the whole circuit of the ramparts. The Irish guns continued to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 654 pages
...ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of pease. It is easy to imagine with what tears grace was said over the suppers of that evenin". There was little sleep on either side of the wall. The bonfires shone bright along the whole... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 pages
...ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of pease. It is easy to imagine with what tears grace was said...to roar all night ; and all night the bells of the res cued city made answer to the Irish guns with a peal of joyous defiance. Through the three following... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 296 pages
...ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of pease. 15. It is easy to imagine with what tears grace was said...shone bright along the whole circuit of the ramparts. 16. Three days after, this most memorable siege was at an end. It had lasted a hundred and five days.... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 pages
...which each now received was 11 three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of peas. It is12 easy to imagine with what tears grace was said over the suppers of that evening.13 There was little sleepu on either side15 of the wall. The bonfires shone bright 16 along... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...which each now received was three pounds d flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of peas. It is easjf 9 b eithet side of the wall The bonfires shone bright along the whole circuit of the ramparts. The Irish... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1904 - 888 pages
...of unloading began. First were rollet! on shore barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal. i Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of...to imagine with what tears grace was said over the i suppers ofthat evening. There was little sleep on either I side of the wall. The bonfires shone bright... | |
 | G. Clifford Dent - 1914 - 312 pages
...ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of pease. It is easy to imagine with what tears grace was said over the suppers of contrast to the climax of successful daring ; it is a departure from chronological order, and begins... | |
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Not many hours before, half a pound of tallow and three quarters of a pound of salted hide had been weighed out with niggardly care to every fighting man. The ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of... 
