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Updated: June 28, 2025
He almost cried aloud in his relief the uniforms of the fugitives were those of artillerymen, and only cavalry had accompanied the king. A moment later there appeared in the center of his lenses a tall figure with a full beard. He rode, swinging his saber above his head, and behind him at full gallop came a squadron of the Royal Horse. Old von der Tann could restrain himself no longer. "The king!
"WHAT'S this saber doing here?" asked a young guardsman, Lieutenant Afanasyi Afanasyevitch Fet, of the footman one day as he entered the hall of Ivan Sergeyevitch Turgenieff's flat in St. Petersburg in the middle of the fifties. "It is Count Tolstoy's saber; he is asleep in the drawing-room. And Ivan Sergeyevitch is in his study having breakfast," replied Zalchar.
Si comprendo una jota de toda esta geringonza.... "Posdata." ¿Todavía le quedaron más disparates en el buche?... "Ya le explicaré a usted mi proyecto cuando pueda hacerlo a solas y sin dar que sospechar; entre tanto me urge el saber si usted me concede lo que tanto anhelo, y para ello iré dentro de una hora a su casa, y le haré entrar recado por Bruno de que deseo hablarle; usted entonces hágame decir secamente por el mismo que no me quiere recibir, y yo entonces interpretaré esta repulsa a mi favor.
Sometimes I would hear the clanking of a saber and a pair of Mexican spurs, and feel a great big hand on my head, and I knew that was Jim, but I couldn't move a muscle, or say a word. "I guess he's dead, ain't he doc?" I would hear in Jim's voice, and the doc would say there was a little life left, but not enough, to swear by.
The captain said if I would spend half the time cleaning my carbine and saber that I did cleaning my boots, I would have been a model soldier. I think that for the first year of my service I had as elegant a pair of boots as could be found in the army. But it was the hardest work to keep track of them.
Beds occupied three corners of the room. There were several comfortable rocking-chairs, a big mahogany bureau and a sewing-machine. Over the double bed hung an ancient saber and over a low bookcase was a framed sampler. There were several good old-fashioned engravings and some framed lithographs with numerous books and piles of dilapidated magazines.
His spur caught in the yielding carpet, and his saber clashed slightly against it; as the rentree au caserne had done an hour before, the sound recalled the actual present to him. He was but a French soldier, who went on sufferance into the presence of a great lady. All the rest was dead and buried. Some half dozen apartments, large and small, were crossed; then into that presence he was ushered.
"Miscreant!" shouted Lawton, his saber ringing in its steel scabbard, as he struck the musket of the fellow from his hands, "offer but again to point your gun at me, and I'll cleave you to the middle." "And you will not pay us, then, Captain Lawton?" said the Skinner, trembling in every joint, for just then he saw a party of mounted dragoons silently encircling the whole party.
The boy recoiled, more in fear of the horse than of the saber, and snatching a heavy pistol from his belt, fired directly at the great foam-flecked head. The horse crashed down, but his rider sprang clear and retreated into the smoke. Almost at the same instant the defenders had fired the second volley, and the charge was beaten back from their very faces.
It is almost certain that the best and most eminent among even these really desired peace. They blundered in method. It was not by continually flashing the saber that peace was to be secured. It is scarcely likely that the conditions under which this war became possible will recur. It is more than unlikely that they will recur in our time.
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