 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...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...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...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...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the leader compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1868 - 386 pages
...Ohio, T. Buchanan Read, embodied the memory of this battle in the Ode, called "Sheridan's Ride:'1 " He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust, the black charger... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1868 - 1134 pages
...do? a glance told him both, Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the lines, 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...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...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 pages
...General saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops ; What was done — what to do — a glance told him both, And striking his spurs...terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzahs, And ihe wave of retreat checked its course there because The sight of the master compelled... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...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...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because With foam and with dust the black charger was gray ; By the flash of his eye, and the... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pages
...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...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...General saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops ; What was done, — what to alth, nor all there because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 pages
...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...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
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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. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole... 
