 | Richard H. Horne - 1841 - 668 páginas
...their ranks. They were employed, throughout the hours of darkness, in keeping up their fires, or dozing with their elbows on their knees and their heads on their hands, thus doubled up to preserve what heat they could, and to avoid the torment of hunger as much as possible.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1847 - 492 páginas
...in keeping up their fires, which a violent wind blew out. They were seen sitting on their knapsacks, with their elbows on their knees and their heads on their hands, dozing, thus doubled together that their limbs might impart some warmth to each, other, and that they... | |
 | French revolution, 1789 - 1847 - 546 páginas
...their ranks. They were employed throughout the hours of darkness in keeping up their fires, or dozing with their elbows on their knees and their heads on their hands ; thus doubled up to preserve what heat they could, and to avoid the torment of hunger as much as possible.... | |
 | Grace Ellison - 1915 - 306 páginas
...huddled up beside the carpets and the cats, kept in bird-cages. Those who have no baby to nurse sit with their elbows on their knees and their heads on their hands. They can only wait their fate. But the Red Crescent ladies are there ; they will not starve. I had... | |
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... and at the head of his Guard. During the day, they remained under arms and in order of battle : at night they bivouacked in square around their chief, and these old grenadiers were incessantly employed in keeping up their fires, which a violent wind... 