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Then all the enemy's forces fled back, and the King's men pursued after them and cut many of them to pieces, and the rest were glad to get safely back into their own country. After that the lad would have ridden away as before, but this the King would not allow.
Monk and the Duke may have been responsible, but they were blamed as though they, for their own special amusement, detained gentlemen in town. Indeed the gentlemen were not detained. They grumbled and growled and then fled, but their grumblings and growlings were heard even after their departure. "Well; what do you think of it all?" the Duke said one day to Mr.
At last, when three thousand Frenchmen were strewn dead upon the ground, the Austrians broke and fled, leaving also three thousand mutilated corpses and six thousand prisoners behind them. Napoleon, hastening to the aid of his lieutenant, arrived upon the field just in time to see the battle won. He rode up to Lannes.
It was the first time she had ever been able to command him in this fashion. "I'm going to him!" The words were like a passionate prayer rather than an affirmation. "I'm going to follow like I followed long ago!" She clutched the basket and fled along. And while this was happening, Truedale, in his cabin, was working as he had not worked in years.
He gazed as if the course of life lay vanishing below him, while level land and waters drew the breadth of shadow over them. Then the last gleam flowed and fled upon the face of ocean, and my father put his dry lips to my forehead, saying nothing. His lips might well be dry, for he had not swallowed water for three days; but it frightened me to feel how cold they were, and even tremulous.
With these came also the horrible sense of self-degradation which smites a woman when she knows that, unsought, she has dared to love. "What have I done," she cried, "O earth, take me in and cover me! Hide me from myself from my misery my shame." Suddenly she started up. "What if he should pass and find me here! I must go. I must go home." She fled out of the churchyard and down the road.
The enemy, being deceived as to their numbers, despised them, and, supposing they were to contend with those only, made ready and began the fight. But as soon as they were engaged, they perceived the other part of the fleet coming down upon them, at which they were so terrified that they fled immediately.
Dr. dear, and well I know it, and have always known it," she said in an aggrieved tone, "but that I am as ugly as that picture makes me out I will never, no, never believe." Jem laughed over this and Anne laughed again with him. Walter couldn't endure it. He got up and fled to his room. "That child has got something on his mind, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan. "He has et next to nothing.
The ministers, reduced nearly to starvation, found themselves under a tyranny worse than that from which they had fled. At length he drove them from the fort, and forced them to bivouac on the mainland, at the risk of being butchered by Indians, until a vessel loading with Brazil-wood in the harbor should be ready to carry them back to France.
The man has fled, and we are ruined!" "He has done it in his death-struggle," gasped the other hoarsely, sitting up and rubbing his throat. "I tell you that he was in extremis. He cannot be far off." "That is true. He cannot be far off," cried De Vivonne. "He has neither horse nor arms. You, Despard and Raymond de Carnac, guard the other, that he play us no trick.
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