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Updated: May 29, 2025
"That's not it; you've just confronted me bravely, and you have a man's strength of will but life ought still to bear flowers for you, if such is God's will you are going forth to fight sword-in-hand to win a worthy destiny of peace and prosperity, for yourself and your native land, in freedom but I, I give me your hand and promise " "My hand? There it is; but I must refuse the promise.
"That's not it; you've just confronted me bravely, and you have a man's strength of will but life ought still to bear flowers for you, if such is God's will you are going forth to fight sword-in-hand to win a worthy destiny of peace and prosperity, for yourself and your native land, in freedom but I, I give me your hand and promise " "My hand? There it is; but I must refuse the promise.
"That's not it; you've just confronted me bravely, and you have a man's strength of will but life ought still to bear flowers for you, if such is God's will you are going forth to fight sword-in-hand to win a worthy destiny of peace and prosperity, for yourself and your native land, in freedom but I, I give me your hand and promise " "My hand? There it is; but I must refuse the promise.
But he finds, on taking survey: that the sword-in-hand method is not now, as in 1741, feasible at all; that the place is in good posture of strength; and will need a hot battering to tear it open.
At this place some of the seamen went ashore unarmed to catch fish, when four Ternatese soldiers rushed suddenly out of the wood sword-in-hand while the Dutchmen were drawing their net, intending to have slain them; but the surgeon called out to them Oran Hollanda, that is, Holland men, on which the soldiers instantly stopped, throwing water on their heads in token of peace, and approaching in a friendly manner, said they had mistaken the Dutchmen for Spaniards.
Not one touched him: he rode through the French Curiassiers sword-in-hand, and entirely unhurt, and calm and smiling, rallied the German Horse, that was reeling before the enemy, brought these and twenty squadrons of Orkney's back upon them, and drove the French across the river, again leading the charge himself, and defeating the only dangerous move the French made that day.
Your prompt and uncourteous sword-in-hand attendance on the sovereign is no longer necessary, and would be as unbeseeming as your old-fashioned serving- men, with their badges, broadswords, and bucklers, would be at a court-mask. Besides, father, loyal haste hath its inconveniences.
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