 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...bushes ; every step was like five of a common man, — the wagons every moment farther, the oak grove every moment nearer and salvation every moment nearer....— you would have said they were muttering a prayer : " O great God, good God, guard this knight, for he is thy servant, and a faithful son of the land... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 682 pages
...bushes; every step was like five of a common man, — the wagons every moment farther, the oak grove every moment nearer and salvation every moment nearer....you would have said they were muttering a prayer: "O great God, good God, guard this knight, for he is thy servant, and a faithful son of the land on... | |
 | Marian A. McIntyre - 1897 - 44 pages
...salvation every moment nearer. " Here are the oaks. Night beneath them is as black as under the ground. A gentle breeze sprang up ; the oaks murmured lightly,...— you would have said they were muttering a prayer : ' O great God, good God, guard this knight, for he is thy servant, and a faithful son of the land... | |
 | Henryk Sienkiewicz - Cossacks - 1898 - 888 pages
...breeze sprang up. The oaks rustled as if breathing a prayer, "Almighty God! Gracious God! preserve this knight! for he is Thy servant and a faithful son of the land on which we have grown with Thy glory." One mile and a half separated Longin from the Polish camp.... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 686 pages
...bushes ; every step was like five of a common man, — the wagons every moment farther, the oak grove every moment nearer, and salvation every moment nearer....you would have said they were muttering a prayer: " O great God, good God, guard this knight, for ne is thy servant, and a faithful son of the land on... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1896 - 568 pages
...taught them, and the oaks for each man, as for Podbipienta, their pure knight, muttered their prayer, "O great God, good God, guard this knight, for he is thy servant, and a faithful son of the land on which we have grown up for thy glory." There could not be a stronger contrast than that between... | |
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... few easily avoided. Now heavier rain began to fall, pattering on the bushes and drowning the noise of his steps. Pan Longin then gave freedom to his long legs, and walked like a giant, trampling the bushes; every step was like five of a common man,... 