 The men dropped here and there like bundles. The captain of the youth's company had been killed in an early part of the action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful...  Civil War Generalship: The Art of Commandby W. J. Wood - 1997 - 269 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Stephen Crane - United States - 1895 - 254 pages
...action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought...widely down his face. He clapped both hands to his head. " Oh ! " he said, and ran. Another grunted suddenly as if he had been struck by a club in the... | |
 | 1896 - 790 pages
...gestures of despair," the men " dropping here and there like bundles " ; the captain shot dead with " an astonished and sorrowful look as if he thought some friend had done him an ill-turn " ; and the litter of corpses, " twisted in fantastic contortions," as if " they had fallen... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - American literature - 1927 - 378 pages
...action. His body lay stretched out in the position of IK a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought...widely down his face. He clapped both hands to his head. "Oh!" he said, and ran. 1«o Another grunted suddenly as if he had been struck by a club in the... | |
 | Stephen Crane - Fiction - 1984 - 1422 pages
...action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought...widely down his face. He clapped both hands to his head. "Oh!" he said, and ran. Another grunted suddenly as if he had been struck by a club in the stomach.... | |
 | Richard M. Weatherford - American fiction - 1997 - 364 pages
...'dying gestures of despair,' the men 'dropping here and there like bundles'; the captain shot dead with 'an astonished and sorrowful look as if he thought some friend had done him an ill-turn'; and the litter of corpses, 'twisted in fantastic contortions,' as if 'they had fallen from... | |
 | Stephen Crane - Fiction - 2004 - 214 pages
...action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought...blood stream widely down his face. He clapped both hand to his head. "Oh!" he said, and ran. Another grunted suddenly as if he had been struck by a club... | |
 | T. K. Kionka - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 372 pages
...been killed His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought some friend had done him an ill turn" (60). Fleming's response, then, approaches the laconic style with which benumbed heroes in many of... | |
 | R. Barton Palmer - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 238 pages
...action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought some friend had done him an ill turn. (33) The youth felt the old thrill at the sight of the emblems. They were like beautiful birds strangely... | |
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