 Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round, saw three men raising him up. " They have done for me at last, Hardy ! " said he. " I hope not ! " cried Hardy. " Yes," he replied ; " my back-bone is shot through...  The Life of Nelson - Page 261by Robert Southey - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Grenville Kleiser - Oratory - 1908 - 456 pages
...heat of action. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...as they were carrying him down the ladder, that the tiller-ropes, which had been shot away, were not yet replaced, and ordered that new ones should be... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 pages
...heat of action. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...as they were carrying him down the ladder that the tiller-ropes, which had been shot away, were not yet replaced, and ordered that new ones should be... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 666 pages
...of the action. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...'I hope not!' cried Hardy. 'Yes,' he replied; 'my back bone is shot through.' Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind, he observed,... | |
 | Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - Basal reading instruction - 1909 - 416 pages
...of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder. He fell on his face. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...last, Hardy,'' said he. " I hope not ! " cried Hardy. Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind, Nelson observed, as they were carrying... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 694 pages
...of the action. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...up. 'They have done for me at last, Hardy,' said he. '1 hope not!' cried Hardy. 'Yes,' he replied; 'my back bone is shot through.' Vet even now, not for... | |
 | Will David Howe - Readers - 1912 - 330 pages
...of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder. He fell on his face. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...last, Hardy," said he. " I hope not ! " cried Hardy. Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mittd, Nelson observed, as they were carrying... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1916 - 376 pages
...which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning around, saw three men raising him up. "They have done for...as they were carrying him down the ladder, that the tiller-ropes, which had been shot away, were not yet replaced, and ordered that new ones should be... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who wag oS, back bone is shot through." Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind, he observed,... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...of the ac.ion. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...not,' cried Hardy. 'Yes!' he replied, 'my backbone is no shot through.' 'Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind, he observed, as they... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...heat of action. He fell upon his face, on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary's blood. Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round,...Hardy, "said he. "I hope not," cried Hardy. "Yes," he replicd; " my backbone is shot through." Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind,he... | |
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