 | Nicholas Murray - 1854 - 300 pàgines
...in France.—A true Picture.—Ride from Calais to Paris.—The Country.—Wind-mills.—People.—A Dissertation on Vanes. THE railway from London to...of France lie in full view. We were here hurried on hoard a miserahle steamer for Calais, huilt after the very worst fashion of these vessels in England.... | |
 | Richard John King - 1868 - 536 pàgines
...throw my ball, ' Breaker,' my name, of mound and wall." A popular rhyme which runs — " Load me well and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais Green "— is supposed to refer to this gun, which is now much honeycombed and useless. From this spot (Dec.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 398 pàgines
...my ball, ' Breaker,' my name, of mound and wall." A popular rhyme which runs — • " Load me well and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais Green "— is supposed to refer to this gun, which is now much honeycombed and useless. From this spot (Dec.... | |
 | Pictorial cabinet - 1878 - 574 pàgines
...my ball, Breaker my name, of mound and wall." There is a popular rhyme which runs — " Load me well and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais Green," which is supposed to refer to this piece of ordnance ; though there appears every probability that,... | |
 | Charles Dorrance Linskill - 1888 - 430 pàgines
...fun-loving France, and carved on its brazen side are these words of threatening and promise: "Sponge me out and keep me clean, and I'll carry a ball to Calais Green." As the distance is twenty-one miles across the channel, where two seas delight to meet, it is probably... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1895 - 400 pàgines
...Pocket Pistol," familiar, even to those who have never seen it, by the popular rhyme— " Load me well and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais Green ; " and all around are batteries old and new. Dover is prepared for war, and therefore will be left... | |
 | Henry Starkey Fuller - 1901 - 194 pàgines
...horizon. Among them is "Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol," on which the lines are written : "Train me well and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais green." This is a long range for a gun even to-day. The ancient cannon, a brass piece 20 feet in length, was... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1922 - 330 pàgines
...reverse the threat of the old rhyme : 1 " Old For-Ever," Blackvxad's Magazine, June 1922. Load me well, and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais Green ! ) Or, going East once more, you might have to be very learned, and not too ill-informed, on Merv... | |
 | Hugh Johnston - 1881 - 492 pàgines
...walls, pointing over the Channel, is still the famous old cannon, upon whose breech was written : — " Keep me dry, and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais green." We at once embark for Calais, and are two hours in crossing the Channel. That " strip of silver sea... | |
 | 1852 - 686 pàgines
...wonderful old musket, and the gun which has so long made that obliging overture — " Sponge me well, and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais green" — must consequently abdicate its laurels. With such weapons at our command, surely even Sir Francis... | |
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Keep me dry, and keep me clean, And I'll carry a ball to Calais green. 