Struggles and Experiences of a Neutral Volunteer, 1. kötetChapman and Hall, 1872 |
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allowed amongst Argenteuil Arlon arranged arrived assistance Balan Baron Bavarian Bazeilles Beaugency beautiful beds Brackenbury Briey called Captain carriage carried Chartres château château of Versailles cigars Colonel command Committee Convention of Geneva convoy depôt dinner Douzy drivers drove Duke of Augustenburg Dutch Écouen endeavoured England Étampes everything evident excited fire Florenville France francs-tireurs French friends German soldiers Gonesse Henry Havelock horses hospital Hôtel hour JOHN FURLEY journey Kantzow ladies looked Loyd-Lindsay Luxemburg Madame Meaux midst military morning never night o'clock occupied officers Paris party passed patients persons poor fellows Porter Beer position préfet Prince prisoners Prussian railway reached Red Cross road Romanet Saarbrück scene Sedan sent servants sick and wounded side sœurs de charité soon street suffering surgeons Thence tion told town troops Versailles Vibraye village visited volunteer waggon whilst wine Woolwich
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12. oldal - line his dead chaps with steel; The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs ; And now he feasts, mouthing the flesh of men, In undetermined differences of kings.
151. oldal - The groan, the roll in dust, the all-white eye Turn'd back within its socket,—these reward Your rank and file by thousands, while the rest May win perhaps a ribbon at the breast.
264. oldal - stricken in life's battle? Many wounded round thee moan; Lavish on their wounds thy balsams, And that balm shall heal thine own.
162. oldal - Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris, quia non est alius qui pugnet pro nobis nisi tu, Deus noster.
139. oldal - Afflictions' sons are brothers in distress ; A. brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss.
218. oldal - Friends I have made, whom envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
309. oldal - German triumph was a very humiliating spectacle, as far as the Germans were concerned. They were like animals in a Zoological Garden, to be looked at and jeered at by a Paris mob. They were hemmed in by artificial barriers, and by armed sentries, who looked on all their movements with suspicion;
177. oldal - and the sufferings of the poor people who had been driven from their homes, and had no chance of earning any money,
168. oldal - of drawing fire, and, personally, I still possessed some respect for the Convention of Geneva, which in its first article declares, " La neutralite cesserait si les ambulances ou les hopitaux etaient gardes par une force militaire.