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It was a wild, hand to hand conflict general and soldier, cavalier and pikeman, lancer and musketeer, mingled together in one dark, confused, and struggling mass, foot to foot, breast to breast, horse to horse-a fierce, tumultuous battle on the sands, worthy the fitful pencil of the national painter, Wouvermans.
Gilles stays to guard mademoiselle." I felt not a little injured, deeming that I, whom mademoiselle knew best, should not be the one chosen to stay by her. But the sting passed quickly. After all, Paris was likely to be more exciting than St. Denis. The day being Friday, we delayed not to eat, but straightway mounted the two nags that a sunburnt Béarn pikeman had brought to the door.
"Please, sir," he gurgled, "I've forgotten how to cheek my pike." Halfman mastered exasperation bravely, as, taking a pike from the hands of Thoroughgood, he strove to illuminate rusticity. "Use your pike thus, noddy," he lessoned, good-naturedly, wielding the weapon with the skill of a practised pikeman.
The marquis entered at once, M. de Rosny followed, I brought up the rear; and the door was closed by a man who stood behind it. We found ourselves crowded together at the foot of a very narrow staircase, which the doorkeeper a stolid pikeman in a grey uniform, with a small lanthorn swinging from the crosspiece of his halberd signed to us to ascend.
It was a wild, hand to hand conflict general and soldier, cavalier and pikeman, lancer and musketeer, mingled together in one dark, confused, and struggling mass, foot to foot, breast to breast, horse to horse-a fierce, tumultuous battle on the sands, worthy the fitful pencil of the national painter, Wouvermans.
A pikeman came up, placed the end of his pike into the oak, and leaned suddenly and heavily upon it: the steel crashed in an inch, and stopped as it met the stonework behind. The officer made a motion, the pike was withdrawn, and he stood on tip-toe and put his finger into the splintered panel.
"My missus told it me at the pit-head when she brought me my breakfast," said a pikeman to his comrade, and he struck a vigorous blow at the broadseam on which he was working. "It is not ten mile," said his companion. "They'll be here by noon." "There is a good deal to do in their way," said the first pikeman.
Finding the attack concentrated on one point of the stockade, Lalor gathered his handful of rifles here, and they met the charge of the regulars with another volley, checking their advance. A volley from the carbines replied, and the lead whistled into the stockade. A pikeman ran forward a few steps, plunged on his face at Jim's feet, and lay still.
The printer murmured 'Eat, and set a great pewter salt-cellar, carved like a Flemish pikeman, a foot high, heavily upon the cloth. Udal had the appetite of a wolf. He pulled off his cap the better to let his jaws work. 'Here's a letter from the Doctor Wernken of Augsburg, he said. 'You may see how the Lutherans fare in Germany.
George turned to the officer, who had now descended from the poop to the main deck and was valiantly fighting, single-handed, with his back to the front of the poop cabins, and cried to him: "Do you surrender, senor?" "I will, if you will promise me good guerra, senor," replied the Spaniard, dexterously parrying the thrust of a pikeman and running his antagonist neatly through the shoulder.
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