 Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed, and the heart of the master...  Littell's Living Age - Page 5341864Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1891 - 1404 pages
...And there 'mid the light of the breaking day, The surgeon was fifteen miles away. Under his flying feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed. And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind. And the steed like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, his wild... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Were beating, like prisoners assaulting their walls, [calls; Impatient to be where the battle-field Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Uuder his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...thundering south, The dust like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or a trail of a cornet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster....battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was trained to full play. With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. 5 Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed, And the landscape sped away... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster...master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their wijls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to fuT... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster. Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster....strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. And the landscape gped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a barque... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...thundering South, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster...river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 180 pages
...thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster....river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster;...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, Under his spurning feet, the road Like an ocean flying before the... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...comet sweeping faster and faster, Forebodiug to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the stcud and the heart of the master Were beating, like prisoners...was strained to full play — With Sheridan only ten railed away 1 Under his spurning feet the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed; And the landscape... | |
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