 | James Carrick Moore - History - 1809 - 558 pages
...act of " unbuckling it from his waist, when he said, " in his usual tone and manner, and in a very " distinct voice, 'It is as well as it is. I had " rather it should go out of the field with me.' " Here J feel that it would be improper (1 for my pen to venture to express the admi** ration with... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1810 - 602 pages
...who dismounted, and took him by the hand, perceived him anxiously watching the 42d, which was wurmly engaged, and told him they were advancing, and upon...composure, caught at the hope that the wound might not he mortal, and said to him, he trusted he would be spared to the army, and recover. Moore turned his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1811 - 1102 pages
...snow, on the 2d, id, and uli of J aniiary . buckle it : " It is as well as it is," said he, " caltny : I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was so sensible of his approaching dissolution, that he said to the surgeons who offered their assistance,... | |
 | 1812 - 724 pages
...Captain Hardinge, who dismounted and took him by the hand, perceived him anxiously watching the I JI, which was warmly engaged, and told him they were advancing,...well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the Reid with me." Six soldier* of the '!.'<i and the guards bore him. Captain Hardinge, observing '•>'-... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...in the act of unbuckling it from his waist, when he said in his usual tone and manner, and in a very distinct voice, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " The account of this disaster was brought to sir David Baird while the surgeons were dressing his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...in the act of unbuckling it from his waist, when he said in his usual tone and manner, and in a very distinct voice, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go. out of the field with me.' " The account of this disaster was brought to sir David Baird while the surgeons were dressing his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...in the act of unbuckling it from his waist, when be said in his usual tone and manner, and in a very distinct voice, ' It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.'" Baird while the surgeons were dressing his shattered arm. He ordered them instantly to desist, and... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...said in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, " It is as well as it is ; I hadrather it should go out of the field with me." Six soldiers of the 42nd and the guards bore him. Hardinge, observing his composure, caught at the hope that the wound... | |
 | England - 1830 - 990 pages
...the hilt entered the wound. Captain Hardinge attempted to take it off, but he stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is, I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Sir David Baird had previously been disabled by a severe wound ; and the command of the army now devolved... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1821 - 420 pages
...in the act of unbuckling it from his waist, when he said in his usual tone and manner, and in a very distinct voice, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was borne by six soldiers of the 42d, and Guards, my sash supporting him in an easy posture. Observing... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
