 | 1809 - 604 pages
...for the moment hesitated to re-man the guns ; Augustina rushed forward over the wounded, and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26 pounder j then jumping upon the gun, made, a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege, and having... | |
 | 1809 - 594 pages
...for the moment hesitated to re-тал the guns; Augustina rushed forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired oft'a 26-pounder, then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1810 - 960 pages
...for the moment, Jiesitated to re-man the guns. Augustina, rushing forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired fired off a 26 pounder. Then, jumping upon the gun, she made a tolemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
 | 1812 - 498 pages
...moment the citizens hesitated to re-man the guns. August! ua sprung forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artillery-man, and fired off a six and twenty pounder; then, jump ing upon the gun, she made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
 | Great Britain - 1812 - 570 pages
...for the moment hesitated to re-man the guns ; Augustina rushed forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26pounder, then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege ; and... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1813 - 456 pages
...for the moment, hesitated to re-man the guns. Augustina, rushing forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a twenty-six pounder. Then, jumping upon the gun, she made a solemn vow, never to quit it alive during... | |
 | Francis L. Clarke - 1817 - 630 pages
...soldiers, for the moment, hesitated to-reman the guns; Augustina rushed forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired oll'a 2ti pounder; then jumping upon the gun, made solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1820 - 958 pages
...for the moment, hesitated to reman the guns. Augustina, rushing forward over the wounded and slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a 26 pounder. Then, jumping upon the gun, she made a solemn TOW never to quit it alive during the siege, and her... | |
 | Robert Southey - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1823 - 844 pages
...moment the citizens hesitated to re-man the guns. Augustina sprung forward over the dead and dying, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a six-andtwenty-pounder ; then, jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...for the moment hesitated to reman the guns ; Augustina rushed forward over the woonded and the slain, snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman, and fired off a twenty-six pounder; then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the... | |
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... pounder ; then jumping upon the gun, made a solemn vow never to quit it alive during the siege... 
