 ... leader, the Normans had given back and were now streaming over the bulwarks on to their own galley, dropping a dozen at a time on to her deck. But the anchor still held them in its crooked claw, and Sir Oliver with fifty men was hard upon their heels....  The White Company - Page 160by Arthur Conan Doyle - 1988 - 366 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1897 - 296 pages
...Oliver with fifty men was hard upon their heels. Now, too, the archers had room to draw their bows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog...poor for a ransom, had no prospect of mercy upon the battle-field, what ruth was there for sea robbers, the enemies of human kind taken in the very deed,... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1897 - 296 pages
...ne SkjTCl.^L fifty men was hard upon their heels. Now, too, the archers had room to draw their bows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog...rushed with wild screams and curses, diving under he sail crouching behind booms, huddling into corners hke rabbis when the ferrets are upon them, as... | |
 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1902 - 564 pages
...Oliver with fifty men was hard upon their heels. Now, too, the archers had room to draw their bows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog...poor for a ransom, had no prospect of mercy upon the battle-field, what ruth was there for sea robbers, the enemies of human kind, taken in the very deed,... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...Oliver, with fifty men, was hard upon their heels. Now, too, the archers had room to draw their hows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog...poor for a ransom, had no prospect of mercy upon the battlefield, what ruth was there for sea-robbers, the enemies of human kind, taken in the very deed,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1891 - 736 pages
...Oliver with fifty men was hard upon their heels. Now, too, the archers had room to draw their bows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog...poor for a ransom, had no prospect of mercy upon the battlefield, what ruth was there for sea robbers, the enemies of human kind, taken in the very deed,... | |
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