The fortune of war, General Gates, has made me your prisoner," to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, "I shall always be ready to bear testimony, that it has not been through any fault of your excellency. Life of George Washington - Stran 41avtor: Washington Irving - 1901Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Benjamin Silliman - 1820 - 458 strani
...within swords' length, they reined up, and halted, I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said ' The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner ;' to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, ' I shall always be ready to bear testimony,... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - 1820 - 464 strani
...within swords' length, they reined up, and halted, I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said ' The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner ;' to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, ' I shall always be ready to bear testimony,... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - 1822 - 164 strani
...within swords' length, they reined up and halted; I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said ' The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner ;* to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, ' I shall always be ready to bear testimony,... | |
| 1825 - 476 strani
...within sword's length, they reined up and halted. I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said, " The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner ;" to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, " I shall always be ready to bear testimony... | |
| 1825 - 472 strani
...within sword's length they reined up and halted. 1 then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said, ''The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner ;" to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied,, "I shall always be ready to bear testimony... | |
| James Thacher - 1827 - 494 strani
...within sword's length, they reined up and halted. I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyno, raising his hat most gracefully, said, ' The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner.' To which the cor queror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, ' I shall always be ready to bear testimony,... | |
| James Thacher - 1827 - 506 strani
...halted. I then named the gentlemeji, and General Burgoyno, raising his hat most gracerblly, «aid, ' The fortune of war, General Gates, has made me your prisoner.' To which the corqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, 'I shall always be ready to bear testimony,... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 516 strani
...within sword's length, they reined up, and halted. I then named the gentlemen ; and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said, ' The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner.' To which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, ' I shall always be ready to bear testimony,... | |
| William Leete Stone - 1838 - 568 strani
...within sword's length, they reined up and halted. I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoync, raising his hat most gracefully, said — ' The fortune...General Gates, has made me your prisoner ;' to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied — ' I shall always be ready to bear testimony... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1842 - 652 strani
...within sword's length, they reined up, and halted. I then named the gentlemen, and General Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said ' The fortune of war, General Gates, has mnde me your prisoner ;' to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, ' I... | |
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