 eroes " when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...  Present Use, Requirements, and Future Utilization of Fort DeRussy, Hawaii ... - Stran 118avtor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations - 1987 - 383 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 strani
...us, under Air. Kipling's wandr humorous. How good is the familiar — ' We aren't no thin red 'eroep, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you.' and how irresistible the exclamation — ' But the commissariat Com-u-el when all is said and done,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 368 strani
...gives us the soldier with a grievance and a very real grievance it is. We aren't no thin red heroes, we aren't no blackguards too But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints While... | |
 | 1899 - 482 strani
...are summed up in the typical Tommy Atkins, who tells us naively : " We aren't no thin red 'eroes, and we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you. An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints : Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints."... | |
 | 1892 - 744 strani
...merry swing of the lines delights the ear. Take the following stanza from " Tommy " for instance : "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable hke you ; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints. Why, single men in barricks don't... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1890 - 294 strani
...it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, etc. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards...barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. While... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1892 - 286 strani
...better business than paradin' in full kit. Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' ' Tommy, 'ow 's yer soul ?' But it's ' Thin red line of 'eroes' when...barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While... | |
 | Church congress - 1892 - 682 strani
...head in one of his barrack room ballads, where he says — " We aint as thin red 'eroes, nor we aint no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you." The popular prejudice against the Army is still most lamentably strong, and I should like to give you... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1893 - 246 strani
...for me ; 146 They sent me to the gallery or round the music- 'alls, But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls ! For it's Tommy...barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints : Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints ;... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1893 - 244 strani
...when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls ! For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy thit, an' 'Tommy, wait outside ' ; But it's 'Special train...barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints : Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1893 - 168 strani
...England, and these ballads of his will not be counted among the least precious of our century's poetry. " We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards...single men in barricks, most remarkable like you." Ballads : Tommy. ^\ But the modern man, as he exists under these British skies, toiling in mines and... | |
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