 | George Charles - 1817 - 492 pàgines
...followed a general carnage. The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers." " The success has been generally owing to three points of generalship, not thought of in the preceding... | |
 | George Charles (bookseller.) - 1817 - 490 pàgines
...followed a general carnage. The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers." " The success has been generally owing to three points of generalship, not thought of in the preceding... | |
 | George Charles - 1817 - 496 pàgines
...followed a general carnage. The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers." " The success has been generally owing to three points of generalship, not thought of in the .preceding... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 676 pàgines
...any." " The muir," says another, " was covered with blood, and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, • Scots Magazine for 17.t6. looked like so many butchers." These, it is true, are but the expression... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 660 pàgines
...any." " The muir," says another, " was covered with blood, and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, • Scots Magazine for 1746. looked like so many butchers." These, it is true, are but the expression... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pàgines
...hand, suffered most severely. These were the MacLeans, and MacLauchlans, the Macintoshes, the Frasers, the Stewarts, and the Camerons. The chief of MacLauchlan....wounded to remain amongst the dead on the field of battls, stript of their clothes, from Wednesday, the day of our unfortunate engagement, till three... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 318 pàgines
...followed a general carnage. The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers .'" It is remarkable, that the troops who seemed to take the greatest pleasure in butchering the flying... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1846 - 562 pàgines
...eyewitness among the Government troops, " was covered with blood ; the men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers, "f Never, did even their enemies declare, was a field of battle bestrewn with a finer, perhaps with... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1846 - 552 pàgines
...eyewitness among the Government troops, " was covered with blood ; the men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers."f Never, did even their enemies declare, was a field of battle bestrewn with a finer, perhaps... | |
 | Archibald M'Kay - 1858 - 324 pàgines
...1746, this sentence occurs, — "The moor was covered with blood; and our men, by killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers ! " f See Chambers's Rebellion. Another anecdote, also honourable to the memory of this young nobleman,... | |
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The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers. 
