 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,13 With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast my loose buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | 1878 - 240 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, "With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. 9. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with 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,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 544 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim,...And with circles of red for his, eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat — each holster let fall — Shook off both my jack-boots — let go... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - 1879 - 240 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim. And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 342 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with 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,... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 408 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with 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,... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 342 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockete' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. Then 1 cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 344 oldal
...there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast my loose buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
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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... 
