 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...his heart's desire; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of...his spurs, with a terrible oath He dashed down the line mid a storm of huzzas. And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...heart's desire : He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 6 The first that the general saw were the groups Of...glance told him both ; Then striking his spurs, with a muttered oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas. The sight of the master compelled them... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...heart's desire : He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 6. The first that the General saw were the groups Of...his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas ; And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of Btnifrglc-rs, and then the retreating troops ; — What was done — what to do — a glance told him Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath. Bedashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas. And the... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 180 pages
...heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of...his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...heart's desire — He is stuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the General saw were the groups Of...was done — what to do — a glance told him both, And striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzahs, And the... | |
 | Louis Napoléon Beaudry - New York cavalry. 5th regt., 1861-1865 - 1865 - 378 pages
...charger, reeking with foam, and covered with dust, had brought him in quick haste from Winchester. What was done, what to do, a glance told him both...his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...eyes full of fire. He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of...stragglers, and then the retreating troops ;— What was done—what to do—a glance told him both, Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed... | |
 | George Whitefield Powers - United States - 1866 - 334 pages
...heart's desire, — He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. " The first that the General saw were the groups Of...his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there because The sight of... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...his heart's desireHe is snufflng the smoke of the roaring fray. With Sheridan only flve miles away. The first that the General saw were the groups Of...his spurs with a terrible oath He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of... | |
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mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. 
