 We breathed a new atmosphere ; the air was suffocatingly hot, resembling that issuing from an oven. We were enveloped in thick smoke, and, malgre the incessant roar of cannon and musketry, could distinctly hear around us a mysterious humming noise, like...  Journal of the Waterloo campaign ... 1815 - Page 312by Alexander Cavalié Mercer - 1870Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Fitchett - Europe - 1900 - 486 pages
...enemy had assembled an enormous mass of heavy cavalry in front of the point to which he was leading us, and that in all probability we should immediately...dangerous to extend the arm lest it should be torn oft'. In spite of the serious situation in which we were, I could not help being somewhat amused at... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - Chicago (Ill.) - 1912 - 538 pages
...roar of the firing. He wrote of it as follows : "We were enveloped in thick smoke, and, in spite of the incessant roar of cannon and musketry, could distinctly...of a summer's evening, proceeding from myriads of insects." This remarkable humming noise, characteristic of vast assemblages, strikes the ear with a... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - Chicago (Ill.) - 1912 - 540 pages
...roar of the firing. He wrote of it as follows: "We were enveloped in thick smoke, and, in spite of the incessant roar of cannon and musketry, could distinctly hear around us a mysterious humming noise, like thai; \vlil, .1, ^n*. li. .-,;-.- nf n «nTnTn#>i»'em*rtrnnfr Tirn^^pHintr from mvrinfls of in—... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - 1918 - 570 pages
...roar of the firing. He wrote of it as follows: "We were enveloped in thick smoke, and, in spite of the incessant roar of cannon and musketry, could distinctly...of a summer's evening, proceeding from myriads of insects." This remarkable humming noise, characteristic of vast assemblages, strikes the ear with a... | |
 | Harold T. Parker - History - 1944 - 278 pages
...Despite the incessant roar of cannon and musketry, in the smoke he could distinctly hear around him a mysterious humming noise, like that which one hears of a summer's evening proceeding from myriads of black-beetles—the whine and hum of bullets; cannon shot, too, ploughed the ground in all directions,... | |
 | Hamish Macdonald - Great Britain - 1995 - 60 pages
...plunging and kicking so finished what we had begun. : ' \ Letters, 1809-1828. • I irt.1 61 Source D ...cannon-shot, too, ploughed the ground in all directions,...dangerous to extend the arm lest it should be torn off... 4 Journal of the Waterloo campaign. £5O REWARD. THE TRUSTEES of the CHARITIES in DEDHAM, having received... | |
 | Military art and science - 1870 - 650 pages
...rode with i'razer, whose face was as black as a chimney-sweep's from the smoke, and the jacket-sleeve of his right arm torn open by a musket-ball or case-shot,...beetles ; cannon-shot, too, ploughed the ground in all direction?, and so thick was the hail of balls and bullets that it seemed dangerous to extend the arm... | |
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