 | Gildas (st.) - 1841 - 220 sivua
...boldness than before on all the country towards the extreme north as far as the wall. To oppose them there was placed on the heights a garrison equally...to fight and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, which slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1847 - 440 sivua
...clothing those parts of their bodies which most required it. To oppose them there was placed on the wall a garrison equally slow to fight and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panicstruck company, which slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 542 sivua
...the heights a garrison equally slow to fight and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, who slumbered away days and nights on their...dragged from the wall and dashed against the ground. Such premature death, however, painful as it was, saved them from seeing the miserable sufferings of... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 sivua
...boldness than before on all the country towards the extreme north as far as the wall. To oppose them there was placed on the heights a garrison equally...to fight and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, who slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 546 sivua
...boldness than before on all the country towards the extreme north as far as the wall. To oppose them there was placed on the heights a garrison equally...to fight and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, who slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1851 - 578 sivua
...boldness than before, on all the country towards the extreme north, as far as the Wall. To oppose them, there was placed on the heights, a garrison, equally...fight, and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, which slumbered away days and nights on their uuprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1851 - 594 sivua
...boldness than before, on all the country towards the extreme north, as far as the Wall. To oppose them, there was placed on the heights, a garrison, equally...fight, and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, which slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1853 - 612 sivua
...boldness than before, on all the country towards the extreme north, as far as the Wall. To oppose them, there was placed on the heights a garrison, equally slow to fight, and ill adapted to ran away, a useless and panic-struck company, which slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1868 - 676 sivua
...foaming crest, and yeasty wave rising to the stars, &c."1 But the sentence is too long for quoting. Of the Britons, on the other hand, he says : — To...fight, and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, who slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 sivua
...boldness than before on all the country towards the extreme north as far as the •wall. To oppose them there was placed on the heights a garrison equally...to fight and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, who slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the... | |
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... slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch. Meanwhile the hooked weapons of their enemies were not idle, and our wretched countrymen were dragged from the wall and dashed against the ground. 
