 They paced the deck for the residue of the night in painful suspense, watching with intense anxiety for the return of day, and looking every few minutes at their watches, to see how long they must wait for it; and as soon as it dawned, and before it was...  The Anthony Memorial: A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American ... - Page 277by Brown University. Library, Henry Bowen Anthony, Albert Gorton Greene, Caleb Fiske Harris, John Calvin Stockbridge - 1886 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Memorial Day - 1915 - 100 pages
...day, and looking every few minutes at their watches to see how long they must wait for it; and as soon as it dawned, and before it was light enough to see...turned to the fort, uncertain whether they should see there the stars and stripes or the flag of the enemy. At length the light came, and they saw that 'our... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1917 - 426 pages
...day, and looking every few minutes at their watches to see how long they must wait for it; and as soon as it dawned, and before it was light enough to see...turned to the fort, uncertain whether they should see there the stars and stripes or the flag of the enemy. At length the light came, and they saw that '... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1917 - 428 pages
...day, and looking every few minutes at their watches to see how long they must wait for it; and as soon as it dawned, and before it was light enough to see...turned to the fort, uncertain whether they should see there the stars and stripes or the flag of the enemy. At length the light came, and they saw that '... | |
 | Philip Robert Dillon - History - 1918 - 378 pages
...and looking every few minutes at their watches to see how long they must wait for it; and, as soon as it dawned, and before it was light enough to see...fort, uncertain whether they should see the Stars andStripes or the flag of the enemy." A few moments of misty searching with their glasses, and then... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - Historic buildings - 1918 - 480 pages
...objects at a distance, their glances were turned to the fort, uncertain what they should see there, the Stars and Stripes, or the flag of the enemy. At length the light came, and they saw that ' our flag was still there.' " A little later they saw the approach of boats loaded with wounded British... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - English language - 1919 - 360 pages
...day, and looking every few minutes at their watches, to see how long they must wait for it; as soon as it dawned, and • before it was light enough to...turned to the fort, uncertain whether they should see there the stars and stripes or the flag of the enemy. At length the light came, and they saw that '... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - English language - 1919 - 280 pages
...day, and looking every few minutes at their watches, to see how long they must wait for it ; as soon as it dawned, and before it was light enough to see objects at a distance, theirglasses were turned to the fort, uncertain whether they should see there the stars and stripes... | |
 | Albert Mason Harris - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1924 - 458 pages
...not know whether the fort had been surrendered or whether the attack had been abandoned. As the day dawned, and before it was light enough to see objects at a distance, their glasses were turned toward the fort, uncertain whether they should see the Stars and Stripes or the flag of the enemy.... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - Readers - 1925 - 748 pages
...return of day, and looking every few minutes at their watches to see how long they must wait; as soon as it dawned and before it was light enough to see...turned to the fort, uncertain whether they should see there the Stars and Stripes or the flag of the enemy." Blessed vigil! that its prayers were not in... | |
 | Thomas John Chew Williams, Folger McKinsey - Frederick County (Md.) - 1967 - 1870 pages
...and looking ever; few minutes at their watches to see how long they must wait for it ; and as soon as it dawned, and before it was light enough to see...enemy. At length the light came, and they saw that "our flag was still there." And, as the day advanced, they discovered, from the movements of the boats between... | |
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