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Updated: May 1, 2025
There was but one place to cross to get at him, and right there he stood. The king seized Donauworth and Ulm, and under cover of the fire of seventy guns threw a bridge across the Lech. Three hundred Finns carrying picks and spades ran across the shaky planks upon which the fire of Tilly's whole artillery park was concentrated.
The extremity of the choir, and the spot formerly occupied by the altar, were alone covered by the remains of the roof. Wheelbarrows, rakes, spades, and other garden tools were piled there. The Marquise had to take refuge in the midst of this rubbish, in the narrow space, and her companion followed her. The storm, in the mean time, increased in violence.
Such a roar of rage rose from the clansmen with the shot, and so many came bounding with sticks and spades over the rough ground, that the keepers, knowing, if each killed his two men, they would not after escape with their lives, judged it more prudent to wait orders. Only Valentine came running in terror to the help of his father.
Some with spades cut the blubber or fat mass which surrounds the body into a strip between two and three feet wide, in a spiral form, while others hoisted away on the tackle to which the hook was attached. Slowly the blanket-piece, thus cut off, ascended over the side, the body turning round and round as its coat or bandage, for so we may call it, was unwound.
I've got some pretty hard rides ahead of me." "Y'u y'u give " whispered Ellen, slowly stiffening. "Yes. He's mine," replied Isbel. With that he turned to whistle. Spades threw up his head, snorted, and started forward at a trot. He came faster the closer he got, and if ever Ellen saw the joy of a horse at sight of a beloved master she saw it then.
He was the same rough, coarse being as before, a constant visitor at the ale-house, a fearful swearer, and ready at all times for any mischief. There were too many like him. Samuel and the others having got their picks newly sharpened, and their spades, went to the lamp-house for their lamps.
The blubber was cut up into squares, weighing a ton or more each, the hook of the falls caught in one end, and then the blubber was "eased off" with the spades while those aboard hauled on the tackle, thus ripping the blubber from the layer of flesh beneath.
This meant a tunnel too low to stand or even kneel in with a straight back, and the men, kneeling in mud, crouched back on their heels and with rounded back and shoulders, struck their spades forward into the face and dragged the earth out spadeful by spadeful.
He stretched out a long left arm and flipped the cards from the pack with a jerk of the wrist. "Cards and spades? None? Certainly. None to you, and one to you, one to you, none " Steve's card, spinning round as it came, turned over and lay face up on the table the three of hearts. With a motion inconceivably swift he was on his feet, his left hand over the pack. "Hold on!" he cried.
It is the grave of twelve hundred Germans who fell in the fight of August 11. All over the field there are other graves, some of Germans, some of Belgians, some of horses. When I reached the place peasants with long mattocks and spades were turning in the soil. For two full days they had been at the work of burial and they were sick at heart.
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