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Side 16
... less ? " Peace ! " yelled the monstrous shrapnel at the height of the argument ; " Shut up ! " snapped the pom- pom shells ; " Silence ! " boomed the far - off 40 - pounder . Not a bit of it . No foreign- made projectile ever fired ...
... less ? " Peace ! " yelled the monstrous shrapnel at the height of the argument ; " Shut up ! " snapped the pom- pom shells ; " Silence ! " boomed the far - off 40 - pounder . Not a bit of it . No foreign- made projectile ever fired ...
Side 22
... less likely to do the right thing in the absence of their accustomed director . This is curious , because a British soldier is infinitely more intelligent than thousands of his enemies , for whom officers would be almost useless , so ...
... less likely to do the right thing in the absence of their accustomed director . This is curious , because a British soldier is infinitely more intelligent than thousands of his enemies , for whom officers would be almost useless , so ...
Side 40
... less level . There are four of these spurs and three intervening gorges , and on the right of them the ground runs sharply away back from their alignment into the Boer position itself , curving back again some 2000 yards farther on . In ...
... less level . There are four of these spurs and three intervening gorges , and on the right of them the ground runs sharply away back from their alignment into the Boer position itself , curving back again some 2000 yards farther on . In ...
Side 44
... less whether it waves to Ladysmith or to Gehenna . How the volleys peal amongst the gorges and caverns , as the reserve brigade ( General Hildyard's ) streams forward to take the left re - entrant of the three - three battalions in ...
... less whether it waves to Ladysmith or to Gehenna . How the volleys peal amongst the gorges and caverns , as the reserve brigade ( General Hildyard's ) streams forward to take the left re - entrant of the three - three battalions in ...
Side 55
... less hard to locate , since five - and - thirty different officers hurry up during the day to point out the exact position in five - and - thirty different places — add their stream of shells without let or hindrance to the avalanche ...
... less hard to locate , since five - and - thirty different officers hurry up during the day to point out the exact position in five - and - thirty different places — add their stream of shells without let or hindrance to the avalanche ...
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