 Lord, to endure this patiently; give her peace!" Ah! Ketling hastened, not waiting even till the troops had marched out; for at that moment the bastions quivered, an awful roar rent the air, bastions, towers, walls, horses, guns, living men, corpses,...  Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey; a ... - Page 497by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtin - 1925 - 527 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eva March Tappan - Austria - 1914 - 656 pages
...fragments which blocked the way. Ketling approached the little knight. "I will go down," said he, setting his teeth. "Go! but delay till the troops have marched...toward the sky. Thus died Volodyovski, the Hector of Kamenyetz, the first soldier of the Commonwealth. In the monastery of St. Stanislav stood a lofty catafalque... | |
 | Nevin Otto Winter - Poland - 1923 - 500 pages
...air; bastions, towers, walls, houses, guns, living men, corpses, masses of earth, all torn upwards in a flame and mixed, pounded together, as it were, into one dreadful carnage, flew upwards towards the sky." Michael's answer to the messenger had been to blow up the tower.... | |
 | Nevin Otto Winter - Poland - 1923 - 502 pages
...air; bastions, towers, walls, houses, guns, living men, corpses, masses of earth, all torn upwards in a flame and mixed, pounded together, as it were, into one dreadful carnage, flew upwards towards the sky." Michael's answer to the messenger had been to blow up the tower.... | |
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