 | William Banks Slaughter - Statesmen - 1878 - 318 pages
...and Washington alone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter to his brother, he says : "I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side." His fellow aide, Col. Orme,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 480 pages
...colleges, where now the gown 73. Referring to BradJock's defeat, when Washington wrote to his brother: "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet 1 escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." 76. Study in Cambridge... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 596 pages
...where now the gown 73. Referring to BradJock's defeat, when Washington wrote to his brother: ''Bythe all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." To arms had yielded,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...where now the gown 73. Referring to Braddock's defeat, when Washington wrote to his brother: ''Bythe all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." To arms had yielded,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...colleges, where now the gown .73. Referring to Braddock's defeat, when Washington wrote to his brother: "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I...expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two torses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 926 pages
...shot under him, and four bullets passed through his coat. Writing of this to his brother, ho remarked, "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...protected beyond all human probability or expectation, * * * although death was leveling my companions on every side." * Note 1, page 168. See picture on... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 pages
...early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! " We have been most scandalously beaten... | |
 | Mecosta County (Mich.) - 1883 - 678 pages
...and Washington alone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter to his brother he says : " I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on ever^ side." An Indian sharpshooter said... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the allpowerful dispensations of Providence,...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me. We have been most 'scandalously beaten... | |
 | Newaygo County (Mich.) - 1884 - 594 pages
...and Washington alone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter to his brother he says : " I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side." An Indian sharpshooter said... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side... 
