 Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster; The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were...  J.M. Bellew's Readings from American Authors - Page 491879 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 pages
...hoofs thundering South, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a coiret sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away ! And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thnndering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to fall play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...Still sprung from those swill hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's month ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting thfir walls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was strained... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...heart of the steed, and the heart of the master Were beaten like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls : Every... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the uteed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - Dialogues - 1869 - 208 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. BUT ONE PAIR OF STOCKINGS TO MEND. 21 Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...Still sprang from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet, the roadLike an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape... | |
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