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No military advantage marks the spot where the storm overtook the Duke of Friedland. He was caught like a traveller in a tempest off a shelterless plain, and had nothing for it but to bide the brunt.
In the latter year began the "sixty years' captivity," when Portugal became merely a Spanish province; yet there is no recollection of this except the ingrained hatred of Spaniards and of everything Spanish or of the shaking off the yoke in 1640, and of the battle of Amexial in 1663, where the English contingent bore the brunt of the battle, and the "Portugueses," as they are called by the author of An Account of the Court of Portugal, published in 1700, claimed the principal part of the honour.
Why on earth, then, did you follow me? What is your alibi?" "Never mind now. We should still be in this miserable cellar," briefly. "What a night! I am so ashamed! I shall be horribly compromised." "I'll take the brunt of it all. I'm sorry; but, for the love of Heaven, don't cry, or I shall lose what little nerve I have left." "I am not crying!" she denied emphatically.
The peasants who had hitherto borne the brunt of the battle being evidently the best armed and bravest were now driven back on the main body. The latter, seized with a panic, gave way, the imperialists pursuing them, cutting to pieces with their sharp swords, or running through with their pikes, all they overtook. Moretz and his grandson watched the fugitives and their pursuers.
We were not to lose a moment in responding to our Colonel's summons, and we were to remember that our comrades of the second squadron were bearing the brunt of the enemy's attack alone. "Forward!" We resumed our headlong advance. It was more difficult in the darkness of the wood than on the soft earth of the fields.
But instead of acting right, the eggs maliciously stuck fast to the spider and burned. Ellen was confounded. "How much butter did you put in?" said Mr. Van Brunt, who had come in, and stood looking on. "Butter!" said Ellen, looking up; "oh, I forgot all about it I ought to have put that in, oughtn't I? I'm sorry!" "Never mind," said Mr. Van Brunt " 'tain't worth your being sorry about.
His rebuke to the intriguing priests at the interview of St. Denis, and his reference to the judgment of Solomon, formed the text to his whole career. The brunt of the war now fell upon Brittany and Normandy. Three thousand Spaniards under Don John de Aquila had landed in the port of Blavet which they had fortified, as a stronghold on the coast.
"Colonel Flanagan reports, sir, that the company took the whole brunt of the attack, and gave the square time to re-form." "Tell the Hussars to ride forward, Stephen," said the general, "and try if they can see anything of them. There's no firing, and I fear that the Mallows will want to do some recruiting. Let the square take ground by the right, and then advance!"
The grass was green in the meadow; the trees were beginning to show their leaves; the air was soft and spring-like. In great glee Ellen danced along, luckily needing no entertainment from Mr. Van Brunt, who was devoted to his salt-pan.
It took but a moment for the bully to cross the distance that lay between him and Ted. His rush was like that of a bull, and as irresistible. But Ted did not propose to take the brunt of it. He knew several tricks better than that. As Rhue was about to launch himself upon Ted, the latter stepped lightly aside.
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