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"It was madness to throw your life away thus; a handkerchief tightened here would have sufficed until they carried you off the field." "Yes, yes, I knew. But the wound came just as we were charging. Sabre-cut, it was. If I had said I was wounded, the men would have fallen back. I thought we could take that battery; but we did not. No matter. All right. You ought to go?" "No.
Philippe received a sabre-cut which slashed open his forehead and a part of his face, but he cleft Max's head obliquely by the terrible sweep of a "moulinet," made to break the force of the annihilating stroke Max aimed at him. These two savage blows ended the combat, at the ninth minute.
I trust to fall in with him some day, and to exchange a sabre-cut in honour of the bright eyes of my charming cousin." "He would find you employment if you did," replied the Count. "He is a brave lad and a skilful soldier. But at present there is small chance of your meeting him, at least with a sword in his hand. He was taken prisoner a few days ago, and is now in this village."
Might not this one old habit still indulged have been the only link that sensibly connected the invalid with those pleasant days, when he enjoyed life so heartily, with so many cheery comrades to keep him in countenance when he would have laughed at the idea of any thing short of a sabre-cut, a shot-wound, or a rattling fall over an "oxer," bringing him down to that state of helpless dependence, when our conception of womankind resolves itself into the ministering angel?
No sooner had he mentioned his name than the clerk produced the order in an envelope of which the address was scarcely dry. "It has been taken this moment," said the clerk. "Indeed!" said Francis. "May I ask what the gentleman was like?" "Your friend is easy to describe," replied the official. "He is old and strong and beautiful, with white hair and a sabre-cut across his face.
A third had gone down under a sabre-cut, but had staggered up and was lobbing after his comrades at a painful canter. They had traversed the heavy shingle, reached the harder stones at the cove's head and were sailing away at stretched gallop when a volley rang out from the shadow of the cliff there, and the scream of more than one mingled with fresh shouting.
It seemed to me that my decision gave some satisfaction to Mehemet Ali, who was undoubtedly very much upset by the queer manner in which he had been deposed from his important trust. At once an animated discussion took place." "In French?" interrupted Brett. "No; in Turkish." "Did the gentleman with the sabre-cut on his face take any part therein?" "Not in the least.
More than one white-haired man was within sight; but though he overtook each of them in succession, all wanted the sabre-cut.
And the army would march in, and the guns would rattle and leap along the village street, and, last of all, you you, the General, the fabled hero you would enter, on your coal-black charger, your pale set face seamed by an interesting sabre-cut. And then but every boy has rehearsed this familiar piece a score of times.
"There are p-plenty of lame people in the world." "Yes, but there are not plenty of people in the Romagna with a lame foot and a sabre-cut across the cheek and a left arm injured like yours, and the combination of blue eyes with such dark colouring." "The eyes don't matter; I can alter them with belladonna." "You can't alter the other things. No, it won't do.
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