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Updated: May 10, 2025
The next day, at half-past five in the morning, the bugle-call rang through the barrack-yard at Souvigny. Jean mounted his horse, and took his place with his division. By the end of May all the recruits in the army are sufficiently instructed to be capable of sharing in the general evolutions. Almost every day manoeuvres of the mounted artillery are executed on the parade-ground.
Then he dashed from point to point at the full speed of his horse, and within half an hour, from half a dozen prominent positions, the bugle-call assembling the miners had rung out and men were hastening to obey the summons. Within an hour every man in Last Chance had reported at the assembling-point, all eager to know the cause of the alarm.
Then came the most harrowing scene of all. If the Chinese fire had been hot before, its intensity was increased tenfold as soon as the bugle-call echoed out shrilly between the reports of the heavy guns and fusillade of the musketry, and the remnants of the gallant little band began to fall back on their boats, retiring in wonderful order despite the cruel pelting they received on all sides, not a wounded man being left behind whose life could be saved.
She raised her face, white and noble in the moonlight. Neale slept in a tent, and when he was suddenly awakened it was bright daylight. His ears vibrated to a piercing blast. For an instant he could not distinguish the sound. But when it ceased he knew it had been a ringing bugle-call. Following that came the voices and movements of excited troopers.
"That is indeed true, sir," replied Dick with an admirable gravity, "and if I might be allowed to suggest it, a pamphlet upon that interesting subject would be less dangerous work than coquetting with the latest edition of the Marquise de Brinvilliers." The word pamphlet was a bugle-call to Mr. Hazlewood. "Ah!
"Yes; you'll look mighty sick when yo' hab to pay it, too." From the judge's stand rang out the silvery notes of a quavering bugle-call, and Holton smiled unpleasantly. "The call to th' post," said he, "an' whar's your jockey?" "He'll be here on time," said Frank, voicing a confidence which it was hard for him to feel. He turned, then, to the darkey. "Neb, bring out Queen Bess."
From a building across the street issued a bugle-call, upon which an indescribable confusion broke forth. Men began running to and fro; a voice in authority shouted orders, each of which was the signal for another bugle-call.
Now he realized that he was to be a part of this chosen fighting force, and his heart responded to the summons as to a bugle-call in battle. Instantly the little camp was astir, the men feeling the enthusiasm of their officers.
At four a bugle-call is sounded, and by half-past behold us on board again Pioneers, corrugated iron bar, empty bottles, and all; while the honorary steward, free at last, subsides into the captain's cabin over a brandy and soda and a book.
Above the screams of people fleeing in terror through passage-ways, came a shrill bugle-call. "Go go go Rufus!" begged Father Holland in a paroxysm of fear. "Go!" he pleaded, pushing me towards the door. "I won't!" and I jerked away from him. "There, now." I caught up a club and loaded pistol. The Nor'-Westers had no time to defend themselves.
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