 for Aix is in sight! "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like...  Class-book of English poetry - Page 289by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
 | George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 pages
...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim." The good horse Roland reaches the distressed city in time, and is rewarded by the grateful citizens... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they 1l greet ns ! " — and all in a moment his roan Roiled neck and croup...whole weight . Of the news which alone could save Ai» from her fate, With his nostrils like pita full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...for Aix is in sight ! " How they'll greet us I" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland...could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pita full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...Joris, " for Aii is in sight ! " " How they '11 greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone j And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 396 pages
...and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Eoland to bear the whole weight Of the news, which alone...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they "ll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Roiled...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
..."Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Joris, "for Aix is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan, Eoll'd neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight! us "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan, Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
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