 | Joseph Stock (bp. of Waterford.) - 1800 - 196 pages
...turned to re-r enter the hall. At this moment a fecond Highlander bUrft through tfce gate, «i fpite of of the centinel placed there by the general, and fired...lodging in the jamb. Had we loft the worthy man by fucb an accident, his death would have fpoiied the whole relifh of our prefent enjoyment. He complained,... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
...the hall. " At this moment, a second Highlander burst " through the gate, in spite of the sentinel " placed there by the general, and fired at the " commandant...an aim that was near prov*'ing fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, " piercing a very thick door entirely through, " and lodging in the jamb. Had... | |
 | James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...the haJL " At this moment, a second Highlander burst " through the gate, in spite of the sentinel " placed there by the general, and fired at the " commandant...an aim that was near prov"ing fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, *' piercing a very thick door entirely through, " and lodging in the jamb. Had... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
...the hall. " At this moment, a second Highlander burst " through the gate, in spite of the sentinel " placed there by the general, and fired at the " commandant with an aim that was near prov'1ing fatal, for the ball passed ander his arm, " piercing a very thick door entirely through,... | |
 | Ireland - 1809 - 644 pages
...a second Highlander burst thr. uljh the gate, in spite of the centinvl placed there ni dit Ceniral, and fired at the commandant, with an aim that was near proving fatal ; for the ball passed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through, and lodging in. the jamb. Had we... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Autonomy and independence movements - 1845 - 576 pages
...reenter the hall. At this moment, a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of the sentinel placed there by the general, and fired at the commandant with an aim that was nearly proving fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 382 pages
...re-enter the hall. At this moment a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of the sentinel placed there by the General, and fired at the commandant...with an aim that was near proving fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through, and lodging in the jamb. Had we... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1851 - 358 pages
...re-enter the hall. At this moment a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of the sentinel placed there by the General, and fired at the commandant...with an aim that was near proving fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through, and lodging in the jamb. Had we... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 362 pages
...re-enter the hall. At this moment a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of the sentinel placed there by the General, and fired at the commandant...with an aim that was near proving fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through, and lodging in the jamb. Had we... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1853 - 432 pages
...reenter the hall. At this moment a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of the sentinel placed there by the general, and fired at the commandant...with an aim that was near proving fatal, for the ball passed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through, and lodging in the jamb. Had we... | |
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of the centinel placed there by the general, and fired at the commandant, with an aim that was near proving fatal, for the ball pafTed under his arm, piercing a very thick door entirely through, and lodging in the jamb. Had we loft the worthy man by 
