| James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pągines
...manner of their drawing up and arming their front against an enemy, he thus finishes the picture: ' As easily shall a bare finger pierce through the skin of an angry hedgehog, as aney encounter the front of their pikes.' [21] Ord- The most sudden change for the \vorse; in the military... | |
| Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 pągines
...forming that impenetrable phalanx of spears, whereof it is said, by an English historian, that " sooner " shall a bare finger pierce through the skin of an " angry hedge-hog, than any one encounter the " brunt of their pikes." At the battle of Melrose, for example, Buccleuch's... | |
| William Robertson - 1813 - 652 pągines
...followers crosstheir pike \ nigh as space an Ants with them forward ; and thus each with other so ])4ace will suffer, through the whole ward, so thick, that as easily shall a bare linger pierce through the skin of au angry hedge-hog, as any encounter the front of their pikes." Other... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 452 pągines
...therewith in their left their bucklers, the one end of their pike against their right foot, and the other against the enemy breast-high ; their followers crossing...suffer, through the whole ward, so thick, that as BOOK BUT this victory, however great, was of no IL real utility, for wankof skill or of leisure to... | |
| William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 438 pągines
...therewith' in their left their bucklers, the one end of their pike against their right foot, and the other against the enemy breasthigh ; their followers crossing...shall a bare finger pierce, through the skin of an angiy hedge-hog, as any encounter the front of their pikes." Other curious particulars are found in... | |
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 pągines
...forming that impenetrable phalanx of spears, whereof it is said, by an English historian, that " sooner " shall a bare finger pierce through the skin of an " angry hedge-hog, than any one encounter the " brunt of their pikes." At the battle of Melrose, for example, Buccleuch's... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pągines
...forming that impenetrable phalanx of spears, whereof it is said, by an English historian, that " sooner " shall a bare finger pierce through the skin of an " angry hedge-hog, than any one encounter the " brunt of their pikes." At the battle of Melrose, for example, Buccleuch's... | |
| William Robertson - 1825 - 498 pągines
...therewith in their left their bucklers, the one end of their pike against their right foot, and the other against the enemy breast-high ; their followers crossing...that as easily shall a bare finger pierce through the »kin of an angry hedgehog, as any encounter the front of their pikes." Other curious particulars are... | |
| William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 606 pągines
...therewith in their left their bucklers, the one end of their pike against their right foot, and the other against the enemy breast-high ; their followers crossing...thus each with other so nigh as space and place will sutter, through the whole ward, so thick, that as easily shall a bare finger pierce through the skin... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pągines
...forming that impenetrable phalanx of spears, whereof it is said, by an English historian, that sooner shall a bare finger pierce through the skin of an angry hedge-hog, than any one encounter the brunt of their pikes." At the battle of Melrosc, for example, Buccleuch's... | |
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