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We'll stay as long as we can; but they'll rout us out somehow, be sure of that. And if one of us pokes his nose out to the daylight, it will be shot off." "You're sore, an' you've lost your nerve," said Legget harshly. "Sore at me 'cause I got sweet on the girl. Ho! ho!" Brandt shot a glance at Legget which boded no good.
And would have saved the retreat; had there been a retreat, instead of a panic rout, to save. The poor General ebbing homewards, he and his Enterprise, hour after hour roused himself twice only, for a moment, from his death-stupor: once, the first night, to ejaculate mournfully, "Who would have thought it!"
Here the sun does not rise so early as it does down at Riverby. 'Tired nature's sweet restorer' is not put to rout so soon by the screaming whistles, the thundering trains, and the necessary rules and regulations of well-ordered domestic machinery.
The Colonel, who had warmly embraced the English cause, was doing what he could there to raise arms and men, and his wife at home was playing her part in caring for the fugitives who kept passing through on their way from the forest, both after the massacre at Fort William Henry, and after the rout of the Rangers. Rogers himself was too restless a being to remain in the haunts of civilization.
Parker!" gasped the foreman, apprehensively. "The wind behind 'em an' rum inside 'em." "Ward's men, eh?" suggested the engineer. "That they are! The Gideonites! They can't be anything else." "Get our men together!" Parker cried, clapping his gloved hands. "Rout out every man in the settlement." The foreman started away on the run, banging on house doors and bawling the cry: "Whoo-ee! All up!
"The Miquelets cannot stand against disciplined troops. They have no confidence in themselves, and a thousand Frenchmen could rout six thousand of them; but as irregulars they can be trusted to fight. You shall give me the advantage of your experience and wide knowledge, and we will dispute every pass, cut off their convoys, and harass them.
He gave a queer kind of grin, with no mirth in his eyes, and went away with the other wounded men. Mons? It was the first I had heard of a battle there And our men were having a hard time. The enemy were too much for us. Was it a retreat? Perhaps a rout? The Philosopher answered these unspoken questions. "You always get the gloomy view from wounded men.
The brave fighting-men had not taken his reputation on trust, but had seen him win it fairly on some of the hardest-contested fields of history. The heavy blow at General McClellan on the Chickahominy had first shown the troops that they were under command of a thorough soldier. The rout of Pope at Manassas had followed in the ensuing month.
There was a prodigious rout made about the matter; a vast deal of sentiment and sympathy, and compliments and inquiries; but after the novelty was over, I became heartily sick of the business; and at the end of about three months my poor child was sick too I don't much like to think of it it died.
Of their rout was up Commeap Creek and through a plain open Country, the hills of the Creek Continued high and broken with Some timber near it's borders, the ballance of their rout was through a high broken Mountanious Country. generally well timbered with pine the soil fertile. in this quarter the meet with abundance of deer and Some big-horned Animals.