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Common terms and phrasesafrancesado Antonio army asked Astorga attack barricade Bembibre British Calatayud Captain O'Hare Casa Alvarez Casa Vega cavalry Colonel commissary Corporal Wilkes Corunna Coso cried dark despatch Don Casimir Don Cristobal Don Fernan Don Miguel door dragoons Dugdale enemy escape eyes face fell fight fire followed French Frenchmen Giles Grampus guerrilleros guns hand head heard hombre hope horse hour Jack saw Jack's Juanita La Romana lady landlord letter looked Lumsden Marshal Lannes Miguel Priego miles minutes monsieur mule musket night officers Padre Consolacion Paget Palafox passed Pepito Pomeroy puchero quarter regiment ride road rode round ruins rush Salamanca Santa Engracia Santiago Sass Saragossa Sefior Sefiorita Senor sentry shouted side siege Sir John Moore smile soldiers Soult sound Spain Spaniards Spanish stood street tell Tio Jorge Tobar troopers turned Valladolid voice wall word yards Popular passagesPage 187 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice! Page 419 - Herodotus which a judicious parent would most likely have his boys and girls acquainted with, and Mr. White has succeeded in condensing these by omitting multitudes of phrases inserted in the Greek text. The print is so large and clear that no one need fear that it will foster a tendency to near-sightedness on the part of boy or girl. Page 187 - well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with "me. Page 418 - An American Boy's Adventures in Greece. A Story of Digging and Discovery, Temples and Treasures. By ES Brooks and John Alden. Illustrated by George Foster Barnes. 8° $1.25 " The characters in the book are clearly drawn . . . the picturesque and exciting adventure* are told with viv*city."~fAitfMfJiia Pna, New York— QP PUTNAM'S SONS— London Tales of the Heroic Ages. By ZlNAtDE A. RAGOZIN, author of "Chaldea," " Vedic India, Page 8 - I can possibly avoid it, for there is none other that I like so much, and none else so much deserves it ; for we were the light regiment of the Light Division, and fired the first and last shot in almost every battle, siege, and skirmish, in which the army was engaged during the war. Page 419 - For the libraries of the young — and every boy and girl in the land should collect a library of their own — these superb books have a special adaptation ; they open the classics to them. Page 419 - HThe author is one who knows her subject as a scholar, and has the skill and imagination to construct her stories admirably. Her style is terse and vivid, well adapted to interest the young in these dignified and thrilling tales. Page 161 - And if the enemy are in possession of Bembibre, which I believe, they have got a rare prize. They have taken or cut to pieces many hundred drunken British cowards — for none but unprincipled cowards would get drunk in the presence, nay in the very sight of the enemies of their country: and sooner than survive the disgrace of such infamous conduct, I hope that the first cannon-ball fired by the enemy may take me in the head... Page 419 - Mariner of Genoa. . . . The story of his travels was received with incredulity, and he died while Europe was gravely doubting its truth. It has remained for later generations to establish the correctness of his narrative and accord him the praise he so richly deserves. Page 8 - ... and I love them as I hope to do my better half, (when I come to be divided.) Wherever we were, they were ; and although the nature of our arm generally gave us more employment in the way of skirmishing, yet, whenever it came to a pinch, independent of a suitable mixture of them among us, we had only to look behind to see a line, in which we might place a degree of confidence, almost equal to our hopes in Heaven ; nor were we ever disappointed... Bibliographic information
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