 | English literature - 1814 - 644 pages
...even one glance of pity •v to Uioie who, worn out with fatigue and disease, expired around them. How many unfortunate beings, on that dreadful day,...and famine, struggled hard with the agonies of death ! We heard some of them, faintly bidding their last adieu to •their friends and comrades; others,... | |
 | Eugène Labaume - 1814 - 436 pages
...whirlwind, could no longer distinguish the road, and, falling into the ditches which bordered it, there found a grave. The others pressed on towards the end...their journey, scarcely able to drag themselves along, badly mounted, badly clothed, with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, shivering with the cold, and groaning... | |
 | Eugène Labaume - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1815 - 470 pages
...longer distinguish the road ; and falling into the ditches which bordered it, there found a grave. Others pressed on towards the end of their journey, scarcely able to drag themselves along. They were badly mounted, badly clothed, with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, shivering with the cold,... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...and falling into the ditches which bordered it, found a grave. How many unfortunate beings on this dreadful day, dying of cold and famine, struggled...death. Stretched, on the road, we could distinguish only the heaps of snow which covered them, and which at almost every step formed little undulations,... | |
 | France - 1817 - 184 pages
...destroyed Nov. 6. The soldiers vainly struggling with the snow .... How many unfortunate beings on this dreadful day, dying of cold and famine, struggled...death. Stretched on the road, we could distinguish only the heaps of snow which covered them, and which at almost every step formed little undulations,... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Dueling - 1817 - 312 pages
...falling into the ditches which bordered it, found a grave. How many unfortunate beings on this dreadiul day, dying of cold and famine, struggled hard with...death. Stretched on the road, we could distinguish only the heaps of snow which covered them, and which at almost every step formed little undulations,... | |
 | Eugène Labaume - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1817 - 376 pages
...longer distinguish the road ; and falling into the ditches which bordered it, there found a grave. Others pressed on towards the end of their journey, scarcely able to drag themselves along, badly mounted, badly clothed, with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, shivering with the cold, and groaning... | |
 | Edward Baines - Europe - 1818 - 746 pages
...no longer distinguish the road, and falling into the ditches, many of them there found their graves. Others pressed on towards the end of their journey, scarcely able to drag themselves along, without food, badly clothed, and shivering with cold ; becoming selfish through despair, they afforded... | |
 | 724 pages
...and falling into the ditches which bordered it, found a grave. How many unfortunate beings on this dreadful day, dying of cold and famine, struggled...death. Stretched on the road, we could distinguish only the heaps of snow which covered them, and which, at almost every step, formed little undulations... | |
 | Thomas Thrush - Peace - 1833 - 306 pages
...and falling into the ditches which bordered it, found a grave. How many unfortunate beings on this dreadful day, dying of cold and famine, struggled...death. Stretched on the road, we could distinguish only the heaps of snow which covered them, and which, at almost every step, formed little undulations... | |
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... the eye could reach, presented unbroken, one white and savage appearance. The soldiers, vainly struggling with the snow and the wind, which rushed upon them with the... 
