 | Jean Roemer - Cavalry - 1863 - 540 pages
...soon rendered it so robust, so adroit, so nimble, and so light, that every evolution, every movement to the right, to the left, to the front, to the rear, whether by individuals or whole squadrons, was executed with such rapidity and ease, that the entire... | |
 | William Dalton - Adventure stories - 1865 - 336 pages
...Suddenly, there came other sounds — crackle, crackle, crackle; and then flames darted fitfully upwards to the right — to the left — to the front — to the rear of us. " Great heavens ! " I exclaimed, " the villains have fired the jungle! " " They have indeed... | |
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The horde seek in vain to escape singly ; in vain they circle around ; they rush to the right, to the left, to the front, to the rear ; the circle is closed up completely ; the robbers come therefore more closely together in spite of themselves. 