 | William McDowall - 1850 - 320 pages
...close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword- sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1851 - 850 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and duet, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ;e О life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust j And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...— They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ;* 0 life and death wore in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long look'd the anxious squires} their eye Could in the darkness naught descry. XXVI At length the... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...They close, in clouds of f moke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ;' 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1855 - 142 pages
...close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air." J/armwm. The Scottish right wing, consisting chiefly of Highlanders under the Earls of Lennox and Argyle,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; Oh, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, XXVI. At length the freshening... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth. As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; Oh ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And trinmph and despair.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1855 - 704 pages
...there, Of sudden and portentous birth. As if men fuught upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair ! ' tenes for a time seemed futile ; for all vacancies were promptly filled, and they continued to... | |
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King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if... 
