 I went to bed about twelve, and rose again a little after one. I could no more sleep than if I had been in the engagement ; the rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give...  Life of George Washington - Stran 219avtor: Washington Irving - 1856Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Abigail Adams - 1922 - 340 strani
...sometimes think I cannot stand it. I wish myself with you, out of hearing, as I cannot assist them. I hope to give you joy of Boston, even if it is in ruins, before I send this away. I am too much agitated to write as I ought, and languid for want of rest. Thursday. Fast-day. All my... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 306 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize a scene to us of which we could form scarcely any conception. About six, this morning, there was quiet. I rejoiced in a few hours'... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 568 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize a scene to us of which we could form scarcely any conception. About six this morning, there was quiet. I rejoiced in a few hours' calm.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 372 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize a scene to us of which we could form scarcely any conception. * * * All my distress and anxiety is at present at an end. I feel disappointed.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 368 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize a scene to us of which we could form scarcely any conception. * * * All my distress and anxiety is at present at an end. I feel disappointed.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four-pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize...under VOL. II. — 15 General Thomas set out on its cautious and secret march from the lines of Roxbury and Dorchester. Everything was conducted as regularly... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1851 - 460 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four-pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize...Boston, even if it is in ruins, before I send this away. Sunday Evening, March 10. A most terrible and incessant cannonade from half-after eight till six this... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 606 strani
...rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize...soon as the firing commenced, the detachment under General Thomas set out on its cautious and secret march from the lines of Roxbury and Dorchester. Every... | |
 | 1855 - 624 strani
...the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty -four pounders, and the bursting of shells, gave us such ideas, and realize a scene to us of which we could form scarcely any conception. About six this morning, there was quiet. I rejoiced in a few hours' calm.... | |
 | John Lord Taylor - 1856 - 444 strani
...enemy with amazement. That evening, Mrs. John Adams, writing of the cannonade to her husband, said, " I hope to give you joy of Boston, even if it is in ruins, before I send this away." l A few days now sufficed to drive the British to their shipping. Early in the morning of Sunday the... | |
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