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Updated: June 5, 2025
I marked long lines of men cloaked, and carrying knapsacks, drummer-boys beating music that I had whistled in many a ramble, field-officers shouting orders from their saddles, and cannon limbered up as if ready to move, tents taken down and teams waiting to be loaded; all the evidences of an advance, that I alas should never witness, lying bruised and mangled by the roadside.
But, by degrees, the French recommenced gaining and the Austrians losing ground, and at six p.m., the latter were retreating in good order, defending each step before they yielded it. In the last stage of the battle the French limbered up their guns in the belief that a vast reserve of Austrian cavalry was galloping into action.
They babble of things which their employers would have kept secret, their tongues limbered by drams from square-shouldered greenish bottles, Dutch as dykes, which line the shelves behind the bar. The Cuartel is owned by a black man from Batavia who calls himself Vanderzee. His mother was a Kling.
The hot guns limbered up and left Rietfontein to burn itself out. The sweating gunners covered the last retiring detachment, then lit their pipes. The Boers made a half-hearted attempt to get in both on left and right; but the Volunteers on the left, the cavalry on the right, a shell or two from the centre, checked them as by machinery. We went back to camp unhampered.
"Sure as a gun," said Bingley decidedly; "I'm getting quite limbered out; so I'll go, for I know my room is better than my company, Pepper," and he dragged himself stiffly out of his chair. "Don't go," said Joel hospitably; "stay as long as you want to; I should be glad to have you." Bingley turned a pair of bright eyes on him.
Stuart rose in his stirrups and gazed coolly at the heavy line advancing upon him, and forcing Pate's handful back. "Take back the guns!" he said. They were limbered up, and went off rapidly. At the same moment Colonel Pate appeared, his men obstinately contesting every foot of ground as they fell back toward the Telegraph road, where a deep cut promised them advantage.
Braile limbered himself from his splint-bottom chair, and came forward to the edge of the porch, as if to be sure of spitting quite under the claybank's body. Not until he had folded himself down into his seat again and tilted it back did he ask, "Goin' to order a suit?" "Oh, well!" said Reverdy, with a mingling of disappointed hope, hurt vanity, and involuntary pleasure.
Her stiff hams, that have not been bent to a civility for ten years past, are now limbered into courtesies three deep at ever word. Her fat arms are crossed before her; and she can hardly be prevailed upon to sit in the presence of my goddess. I am drawing up instructions for ye all to observe on Monday night. Most confoundedly alarmed!
Atwell's Battery limbered up in hot haste, turned, and dashed in thunder up the road. It must cross the bridge, seize some height, from there defend the crossing. Where the battery had been the cavalry now formed the screen, thin enough and ragged, yet menacing the grey infantry. The grey skirmishers rallied, fixed bayonets and advanced, the Louisianians close behind.
Shrapnel followed; some dived and came up no more. The guns limbered up and moved across to a nearer position towards the right. As they moved the Boer gun opened again Lord, but the German gunners knew their business! punctuating the intervals and distances of the pieces with scattering destruction.
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