| 1862 - 520 pages
...their fate. There they lay, packed as closely together as dead animals in a slaughter-house — the many Russians, the few English soldiers, who had been...their wretched beds in the agony of pain and thirst which had driven them to madness, glaring out upon us with the piteous helplessness of a hunted animal,... | |
| Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 336 pages
...forced from the sockets, the tongue protruding, the features distended in hideous grotesqueness ; other dead, burnt, and charred in the explosion, a heap...prayer the name of the woman they had loved or the God who had forsaken them, or rolling beneath their wretched beds in the agony of pain and thirst which... | |
| 1880 - 604 pages
...horrible companionship with these corpses, writhing in torture which there was no hand to relieve, with their jagged and broken limbs twisted and powerless,...out, in wild delirium or disconnected prayer, the names of the women they had loved, or the God who had forsaken them ; or rolling beneath their wretched... | |
| 1903 - 706 pages
...sockets, the tongue protruding, the features distended in hideous grotesqueness ; others dead, burned and charred in the explosion, a heap of blanched bones...they had loved or the God that had forsaken them. Now it needs no special perspicuity to realise that writing of this sort is not real art; that Ouidà... | |
| 1862 - 518 pages
...Living men in horrible companionship with these corpses, writhing in torture which there was no band to relieve, no help from heaven or earth to aid, with...their wretched beds in the agony of pain and thirst which had driven them to madness, glaring out upon us with the piteous helplessness of a hunted animal,... | |
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