 | 1857 - 602 sider
...thin figure glided along like a ghost ; there was about all his being something solemn, mysterious, and unearthly. The soldiers were fully convinced that...above all, that he had charmed Fortune to stand by bis colors !" To test the obedience of his troops, he would sometimes issue the most absurd and capricious... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 672 sider
...being something mysterious, solemn, and unearthly. The soldiers were fully convinced that thengeneral had a bond with the powers of darkness ; that he read...against cut and stab ; and, above all, that he had charmedFortune to stand by his colours. Fortune, indeed, which was his deity, became that of the whole... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 sider
...thin figure glided along like a ghost ; there was about all his being something solemn, mysterious, and unearthly. The soldiers were fully convinced that...above all, that he had charmed Fortune to stand by his colors !" To test the obedience of his troops, he would sometimes issue the most absurd and capricious... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 360 sider
...bear to hear the barking of the dog nor the crowing of the cock ; that he was proof against bullets as well as against cut and stab ; and, above all, that he had charmed Fortune to stand by hifl colours. Fortune, indeed, which was his deity, became that of the whole of his army. ST. DUNSTAN'S... | |
 | 1857 - 872 sider
...bond with the powers of darkness ; that he read the future in the stars ; that he could not bear (o hear the barking of the dog, nor the crowing of the...cock ; that he was proof against bullet as well as iigainst cut and stab; and, above all, that lie had charmed Fortune to stand by his colours!" To test... | |
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... not to appear to take any notice of him. " The men were struck with a strange awe when Wallenstein's tall, thin figure glided along like a ghost ; there was about all his being something solemn, mysterious, and unearthly. The soldiers were fully convinced... 