 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...to stay, said: — " Let us go to the chambers. " They went in; but the place was full of lime dust, which the cannon-balls had raised by shaking the walls....down with sabres, came the voices of men. They were camp-followers and those of the dragoons to whom booty was dearer than slumber; they were stripping... | |
 | American fiction - 1919 - 550 pages
...from Pan Michael, picturing a view by night from the battle-broken rampart of a beleaguered city:— The night was in August, warm and fragrant. The moon...the main castle, from which fell a black shadow on one-half of the courtyard. Outside the walls, from between the bulwarks where the janissaries lay cut... | |
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The night was in August, warm and fragrant. The moon illuminated the niche with a silver light; the faces of the little knight and Basia were bathed in its rays. Lower down, in the court of the castle, were groups of sleeping soldiers and the bodies of... 