What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San Martin; all steadily snoring there, in the heart of the Andes, under the eternal stars! Wayworn sentries with difficulty keep themselves awake; tired mules chew barley rations, or doze on three legs;... The Foreign Quarterly Review - Sivu 5461843Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 sivua
...mother, mistress, what not ; and was like to find somewhat, if he ever got across to Chile living1. What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San...Andes, under the eternal stars! Wayworn sentries with diffienlly keep themselves awake ; tired mules chew barley rations, or doze on three legs ; the feeble... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 sivua
...to find somewhat if he ever got across to Chile living ? What an entity one of those night leaguers of San Martin, all steadily snoring there in the heart...cigar ; Canopus and the Southern Cross glitter down, — all snore steadily, begirt by granite deserts, looked on by the Constellations in that manner !... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 sivua
...enough into " steady nose-melody, into the foolishest rough colt-dance of unimaginable Dreams " — " all steadily snoring there, in the heart of the Andes, under the eternal stars " — " all snoring steadily, begirt by granite deserts, looked upon by the constellations in that... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 sivua
...groupings is the bivouac of the army that we have just seen described in their passage over the Andes — " What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San...Canopus and the Southern Cross glitter down ; and all snore steadily, begirt by granite deserts, looked on by the Constellations in that manner." His narratives... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 634 sivua
...night-leaguers of San Martin ; all steadily snoring there in the heart of the Andes under the eternal stars 1 Wayworn sentries with difficulty keep themselves awake...Canopus and the Southern Cross glitter down ; and all snore steadily, begirt by granite deserts, looked on by the Constellations in that manner." His narratives... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 592 sivua
...groupings is the bivouac of the army that we have just seen described in their passage over the Andes — "What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San...in the heart of the Andes under the eternal stars I Wavworn sentries with difficulty keep themselves awake ; tired mules chew barley rations, or doze... | |
| 1891 - 828 sivua
...figuratively when a writer exclaims as if under the pressure of a sudden feeling, " What an entity, oneof those night-leaguers of San Martin ; all steadily...in the heart of the Andes under the eternal stars!" "The battering of insurrectionary axes clangs audible across the CEil-de-Bceuf. What an hour !" Similarly,... | |
| William Minto - 1892 - 582 sivua
...groupings is the bivouac of the army that \ve have just seen described in their passage over the Andes — "What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San...mules chew barley rations, or doze on three legs ; the feelile watch-fire will hardly kindle a cigar ; Canopus and the Southern Cross glitter down ; and all... | |
| William Minto - 1892 - 584 sivua
...night-leaguers of San Martin ; all steadily snoring th<-re in the In art of the Andes under the eternal stars I Wayworn sentries with difficulty keep themselves,...or doze on three legs; the feeble watch-fire will hanlly kindle a cigar ; Cauopus and the Southern Cross (/litter down ; and all snore steadily, bcijirt... | |
| William Minto - 1893 - 112 sivua
...The form is used figuratively when a writer exclaims as if under the pressure of a sudden feeling, " What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San...in the heart of the Andes under the eternal stars ! " " The battering of insurrectionary axes clangs audible across the (Eil-de-Bosuf. What an hour !... | |
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