 ... between the cavalry appeared like a paved street through the river, the heads of the Highlanders being generally all that was seen above the water. By means of this contrivance, our army passed the Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man...  Tales of a Grandfather: History of Scotland - Pàgina 141per Walter Scott - 1861Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1820 - 416 pàgines
...Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man ; and a few girls, determined to share the fortune of their lovers, were the only persons who were carried...playing, the Highlanders began all to dance, expressing L 2 75 the utmost joy on seeing their country again ; and forgetting the chagrin which had incessantly... | |
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1821 - 546 pàgines
...Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man ; and a few girls, determined to share the fortune of their lovers, were the only persons who were carried...which they- had continually nourished ever since their departure from Derby. We entered England on the 8th of November, and left it on the 20th of December,... | |
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1821 - 544 pàgines
...Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man ; and a few girls, determined to share the fortune of their lovers, were the only persons who were carried...them, and which they had continually nourished ever sine? their departure from Derby. We entered England on the 8th of November, and left it on the 20th... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pàgines
...Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man ; and a few girls, determined to share the fortune of their lovers, were the only persons who were carried away by the rapidity of the stream. Fire* were kindled to dry our people as soon as they quitted the water ; and the bagpipers having commenced... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pàgines
...Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man ; and a few girls, determined to share the fortune of their lovers, were the only persons who were carried...nourished ever since their department from Derby." — JOHNSTONS, pp. 75, 76. — Compare Viscount Dundee's exiled officers' past-age of the Rhine. —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 pàgines
...Esk in an hour's time, without losing a single man ; and a few girls, determined to share the fortune of their lovers, were the only persons who were carried...country again ; and forgetting the chagrin which had incessantlv devoured them, and which they had coniinually nourished ever since their department from... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 344 pàgines
...on finding themselves once more in their own country. " Fires," says the Chevalier de Johnstone, " were kindled to dry our people as soon as they quitted...which they had continually nourished ever since their departure from Derby." Thus was accomplished the memorable march of the Highland army from Derby to... | |
 | John Cornelius O'Callaghan - 1870 - 728 pàgines
...advancing in their march forwards, never retarded them a moment." Another Jacobite officer adds — " Fires •were kindled to dry our people as soon as...expressing the utmost joy, on seeing their country again!" Such was the Jacobite march from Scotland to Derby, and from Derby back to Scotland ; of which, from... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 538 pàgines
...they fancied within their reach — had crossed the border-river Esk, wading up to their arm-pits, " the bag-pipers having commenced playing, the Highlanders began all to dance. expressing the utmost joy at seeing their country again." They forgot the chagrin " which they had continually nourished ever... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 370 pàgines
...on finding themselves once more in their own country. " Fires," says the Chevalier de Johnstone, " were kindled to dry our people as soon as they quitted...which they had continually nourished ever since their departure from Derby." Thus was accomplished the memorable march of the Highland army from Derby to... | |
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