 | 1831 - 576 pages
...agony struck on the ears of the listeners on the hill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated, they saw Sannders Smyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian to the Ballybreehoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head,... | |
 | John Banim, Michael Banim - Ireland - 1828 - 316 pages
...the listeners on the hill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated, they saw Saunders Smyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian to the Ballybreehoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head,... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 578 pages
...the listeners on the hill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated, they saw Saunders Smyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian to the Ballybreehoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head,... | |
 | John Banim - 1865 - 450 pages
...listeners on the hill. Looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated, they saw Saunders Suiyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian...house stood alone in the village. A short distance before its door was a, lime-tree, with benches contrived all round the trunk, upon which, in summer... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...the listeners on the bill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated, they saw Saunders evening where ye dwell ; But Winter, armed with terrors here unknown, Ballybreehoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 542 pages
...the listeners on the hill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated they say Saunders Smyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian to the Ballybrechoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 622 pages
...the listeners on the hill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated they saw Saunders Smyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian to the Ballybrechoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 534 pages
...the listeners on the hill, and looking hard towards a spot brilliantly illuminated they say Saunders Smyly vigorously engaged in one of his tasks as disciplinarian to the Ballybrechoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head... | |
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Ballybreehoone cavalry. With much ostentation, his instrument of torture was flourished round his head, and though at every lash the shrieks of the sufferer came loud, the lashes themselves were scarce less distinct. A second group challenged the eye.... 