 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 456 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 - 1896 - 470 pages
...re-enter the hall. At this moment a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of time 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 
