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... blood , and with bones gnawed by dogs and vultures . ' As we were marching over the scene of the battle , ' says Labaume , ' we heard a piteous sound at a distance ; and , on reach- ing the spot , we found a French soldier stretched on ...
... blood , and with bones gnawed by dogs and vultures . ' As we were marching over the scene of the battle , ' says Labaume , ' we heard a piteous sound at a distance ; and , on reach- ing the spot , we found a French soldier stretched on ...
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... blood ran along the streets ; and the city being fired at once in several places , the atmosphere soon glowed with such intolerable heat as compelled even the soldiers themselves to seek refuge in their camps . More than five thousand ...
... blood ran along the streets ; and the city being fired at once in several places , the atmosphere soon glowed with such intolerable heat as compelled even the soldiers themselves to seek refuge in their camps . More than five thousand ...
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... blood and murder . We cannot make a more lively representation and emblem to ourselves of hell , than by the view of a kingdom in war . " They who allow no war to be lawful , have consulted both nature and religion much better than they ...
... blood and murder . We cannot make a more lively representation and emblem to ourselves of hell , than by the view of a kingdom in war . " They who allow no war to be lawful , have consulted both nature and religion much better than they ...
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... blood — and extensive plains without a tree , or fence , or any object but the ruins of deserted farm - houses . Above all this group of woful figures , let the following words be inserted in red charac- ters , to represent human blood ...
... blood — and extensive plains without a tree , or fence , or any object but the ruins of deserted farm - houses . Above all this group of woful figures , let the following words be inserted in red charac- ters , to represent human blood ...
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... blood , butchery , desola- tion , confound without distinction every thing sacred and profane . " " Behold with the mind's eye savage troops of men horrible in their very visage and voice ; men clad in steel , drawn upon every side in ...
... blood , butchery , desola- tion , confound without distinction every thing sacred and profane . " " Behold with the mind's eye savage troops of men horrible in their very visage and voice ; men clad in steel , drawn upon every side in ...
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