 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 590 pages
...themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one nan, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed least of any description whatever. One dead,... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Authors, English - 1887 - 552 pages
...when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Camatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, they did not see .one man, not one woman, not one child, not one fourfooted beast. One dead, uniform silence reignsd over the whole region." In a riotable hatter to Elliot on the question... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Readers - 1888 - 456 pages
...impious vow, that, when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of mile* in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one womun, not one child, not one fourfooted beast of any description whatever. One dead, uniform silence... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1888 - 286 pages
...their impious vow that, when the British army traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for one hundred miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they saw neither man nor woman nor child nor four-footed beast of any description whatever. 10. And when,... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1892 - 362 pages
...themselves of their impious vow that, when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the...one four-footed beast of any description whatever. 5. Turn to Lesson 74, to the extract from Carlyle, and see how much description derives from what Bain... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 394 pages
...themselves of their impious vow, that, when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic, for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the...dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region." The opposite of climax is Anti-climax. In this form of expression the idea becomes loss and less impressive;... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 392 pages
...themselves of their impious vow, that, when the British armies traversed, as they did, the C'arnatic, for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the...see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-fcoted beast of any description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region."... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - Moral conditions - 1893 - 376 pages
...house, destroyed every temple." When the British armies traversed this district eighteen months later, " through the whole line of their march they did not...child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever."2 Less than a century later, when there was a mutiny in India, which roused the worst passions... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - Moral conditions - 1893 - 376 pages
...house, destroyed every temple." When the British armies traversed this district eighteen months later, " through the whole line of their march they did not...not one woman. not one child, not one four-footed boast of any description whatever." " Less than a century later, when there was a mutiny in India,... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - Character - 1894 - 400 pages
...house, destroyed every temple." When the British armies traversed this district eighteen months later, " through the whole line of their march they did not...one four-footed beast of any description whatever." x Less than a century later, when there was a mutiny in India, which roused the worst passions of religious... | |
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Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one... 
