 | 1846 - 544 pages
...I remember a spot or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hat-band ; his stature was of...and untunable ; and his eloquence full of fervor." His mind seems by this time to have undergone a marked change. The applause he had received in the... | |
 | John Frost - History, Modern - 1846 - 386 pages
...remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hat-band ; his stature was of...voice sharp and untunable ; and his eloquence full of fervour." Such was Oliver Cromwell, who now, emerging from an obscure position in the parliamentary... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of...countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and * Dugdsle's account (in his ' Short View of the Troubles') is a piece of good comedy: " His boldness... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 640 pages
...remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side." The appearance of such men, and their rapid accession to power, must not a little have astonished the... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 412 pages
...I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hatband; his stature was of a good size; his sword stuck close to hi§ side." Helmets or head-pieces of the time of Charles I. and Cromwell. THE ARMwH at this period,... | |
 | 412 pages
...his little band, which was not much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hat-band, — hia stature was of a good size, — his sword stuck close to his side, — his countenance swollen and rwldish, — hid voice blmrp and untunablc Mid his eloquence full of fervour; for the subjectmatter... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 660 pages
...hlood upon his little hand, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hathand ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side." The appearance of such men, and their rapid accession to power, must not a little have astonished the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 548 pages
...parliament ; " his linen plain and not very clean ; his hat without a hatband ; his countenance swoln and reddish ; his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervor" ; adding to the picture, " a speck or two of blood on his little band, which was not much larger than... | |
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I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger... 
