 At the moment of firing, she clapped her hand to her head, as if a ball had struck her brow, and sat down in the boat without fainting, without shrieking, without speaking, and returned to the brig with the crew when they pleased and how they pleased.  Lights and Shades of Military Life - Página 64por comte Alfred Victor de Vigny, sir Charles James Napier - 1840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | International peace society - 232 páginas
...plainly what has happened, and her reason fails under the shock. ' At the moment of firing she clasped her hand to her head, as if a ball had struck her...returned to the brig with the crew when they pleased nnd how they pleased.' The old Captain spoke to her, out she did not understand him. She was mute,... | |
 | 1840 - 818 páginas
...I was telling you, I believe, about dear little Laurette.— Poor young creature! — What awkVard people there are in the world ! The officer was stupid...fashion I could. She seemed to listen to me, and looked mo in the face, at .the same time rubbing her forehead. But she did not understand me. And her brow... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 674 páginas
...do not know, but it was seen and heard, as I see and hear you. At the moment of the shot she raised her hand to her head as if a ball had struck her brow, and sat in the boat without fainting, without crying, without speaking, and returned to the brig when they... | |
 | 1871 - 386 páginas
...plainly what has happened, and her reason fails under the shock. • At the moment of firing she clasped her hand to her head, as if a ball had struck her brow, and sat down in the boat without shrieking, fainting, or speaking, and returned to the brig with the crew when they pleased and how... | |
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