skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones, flesh, and gay clothing all pounded together as if brayed in a mortar, extending for miles, not very thick in any one place, but recurring perpetually for weary hours; and then they cannot, with... Patriotism and Empire - Page 130by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1899 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1871 - 386 pages
...and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes with skulle shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones, flesh...together, as if brayed in a mortar, extending for miles." These are the iheavee of only one battle field. Follow the destroy«? to other fields, and hear "what... | |
| 1869 - 424 pages
...corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes with skulls eba'tered, faces blown off. hi¡'S smashed, bones, flesh and gay clothing all pounded together, as if brayed in a mortar, extendió? for miles." These are the sheaves of only one battle Held. Follow the destroyer to other... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...in a mortar, extending for miles, not very thick in one place, but recurring perpetually for weary hours, and then they cannot with the most vivid imagination... | |
| Bible Christians - 1870 - 602 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...come up to the sickening reality of that butchery. No nightmare could be so frightful. Several times I came on spots where there were two horses lying... | |
| Elihu Rich - 1870 - 628 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...weary hours, and then they cannot, with the most vivid imagina, tion, come up to the sickening reality of that butchery. No nightmare could be so frightful."... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1864 - 296 pages
...bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones, llesh, and gay clothing all pounded together, as if brayed...but recurring perpetually for weary hours, and then the)' cannot, with the most vivid imagination, come up to the sickening reality of that butchery."... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1871 - 74 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...come up to the sickening reality of that butchery." Such a sight would have shocked the Heathen of Eome. They could not have looked on while the brave... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1882 - 356 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...come up to the sickening reality of that butchery." 1 Such a sight would have shocked the Heathen of Eome. They could not have looked on while the brave... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1883 - 490 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...come up to the sickening reality of that butchery." * Such a sight would have shocked the Heathen of Rome. They could not have looked on while the brave... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1883 - 488 pages
...red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitndes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,...imagination, come up to the sickening reality of that butehery." * Such a sight would have shocked the Heathen of Rome. They could not have looked on while... | |
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