 | Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 pages
...some authority and influence over his companions, placed his back against the gate, and swore that if he was to die for it the next minute, he would have the life of the first man who should open the gate, or set enemy's foot within side of that place. He declared that the housekeeper, who was... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - 620 pages
...who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore that, if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face ; but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - 610 pages
...who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore that, if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face ; but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
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She heard them at the gate, and expected that they would have broken in the next instant. But one, who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore that, if he was to die for it the next minute, he would have... 
