 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
 | Thomas Joseph Lawrence - 1885 - 354 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." Yet this, I repeat, is the best, not the worst side of the sufferings caused by war. Comparatively... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Lawrence - 1885 - 362 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." Yet this, I repeat, is the best, not the worst side of the sufferings caused by war. Comparatively... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1897 - 290 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,...gay clothing all pounded together as if brayed in mortar, extending for miles. . . . and then they cannot, with the most vivid imagination, come up to... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1902 - 362 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 Rome. They could not have looked on while the brave... | |
 | Herbert Louis Samuel Samuel (Viscount) - 1902 - 434 pages
...in all attitudes; and skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones, flesh and gay clothing pounded together as if brayed in a mortar, extending...miles, not very thick in any one place, but recurring per¿)ctua1ly for weary hours; and then they cannot, with the most vivid imagination, come up to the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1904 - 360 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,...and gay clothing all pounded together as if brayed iu a mortar extending for miles, not very thick in any one place, but recurring perpetually for weary... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1906 - 616 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." I have tried to show that changes in practice, tending on the whole to restrain the passions of those... | |
 | George Ross Kirkpatrick - 1910 - 384 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,...recurring perpetually for weary hours, and then they can not with the most vivid imagination come up to the sickening reality of that butchery [the battle... | |
 | George Ross Kirkpatrick - 1910 - 392 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,...recurring perpetually for weary hours, and then they can not with the most vivid imagination come up to the sickening reality of that butchery [the battle... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1911 - 88 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... | |
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