| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...greet us!" —and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...brim, And with circles of red for his eyesockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
| Henry Allon - 1847 - 600 pagina’s
...greet us," — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. Then I cast loose my buff coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all; Stood up in the... | |
| 1847 - 592 pagina’s
...fronted many a shivering lance, will yet save the lovers, for see how he flies, " With his nostrJs like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-socketó' rim." Do not despair, then, of meeting them next month enjoying the rewaid of their devotion.... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pagina’s
...us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
| 1850 - 538 pagina’s
...dead as a stone; •-' And there was my Roland to bear the whale weight Of the news which could alone save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, ),, ,Al»d with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. t.- • if IX i ' ''tk'fhen I cast loose my... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pagina’s
...greet us!"—and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news,...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
| George Wilson - 1852 - 336 pagina’s
...by stride, never changing our place." First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim." The good horse Roland reaches the distressed city in time, and is rewarded by the grateful citizens... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pagina’s
...greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news,...of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for bis eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neek and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with cireles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook... | |
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