 | Robert Huston - 1851 - 234 pagine
...began to unbuckle it, but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, 'It is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Six soldiers of the 42d and the Guards bore him. Hardinge, observing his... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pagine
...against him — " the sword he had never disgraced " — the General said faintly, " No, Harding ; it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they bore their dying commander, for in him the soldier... | |
 | 1850 - 216 pagine
...Viscount) Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; when he said with soldierly feeling, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " His serenity was so striking, that Hardinge began to hope the wound was... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1852 - 562 pagine
...painfully inconvenient, he refused the kind offices of those who would have removed it, remarking — " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was removed in a blanket by six soldiers, who evinced their sympathy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 pagine
...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saving, ' It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me :' and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight."... | |
 | Charles Mac Farlane - 1853 - 550 pagine
...wound. Hardinge would have unbuckled the belt, and have taken, it o^Vro&.xSoffc : dying soldier said, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Hardinge again began to hope, and to say that he hoped the wound would not... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1853 - 702 pagine
...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' Tt is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me :' and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was bome from the fight."... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1854 - 368 pagine
...hanging by a film of skin, the breast and lungs almost laid open. Soon after, when the soldiers had placed him on a blanket to carry him from the field,...should go off the field with me." He was carried by the soldier» towards the town ; but though the pain of the wound soon became excessive, such was the serenity... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pagine
...Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' His strength was failing fast, and life was just extinct, when, with an... | |
 | 1855 - 440 pagine
...a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off ; but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." And in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, he was borne from the fight... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
