 | Herbert R. Clinton - 1878 - 528 Seiten
...the wound, but he would not permit Captain (afterwards Viscount) Hardinge to withdraw it, saying, " I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The blanket was laid across several sashes, among them being the sash of Colonel (afterwards General)... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 Seiten
...His sword got entangled, and the hilt entered the wound, but he would not suffer it to be removed. " I had rather it should go out of the field with me," said the dying commander, with a soldier's pride. He often stopped his bearers that he might look on... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1880 - 382 Seiten
...Hardinge, a stufforBcer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me,' and in that manner, so beooming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." But the battle was already... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1883 - 382 Seiten
...soldiers moved him his sword hilt got into the wound. An officer tried to take the sword off, but Moore said, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." In the meanwhile the English had been gaining ground. The French were in great confusion, and night... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 Seiten
...Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' 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, he was borne from the fight. Notwithstanding this... | |
 | John A. Fallon - 1883 - 96 Seiten
...siege of Gibraltar, every appliance which experience could suggest was brought into requisition. 2. — I had rather it should go out of the field with me. 3. — You know that I always wished to die this way. 4.— Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1885 - 458 Seiten
...Captain Hardinge, afterwards Lord 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." Several times he caused his attendants to stop, and turn round that he might behold the field of battle... | |
 | Léony Guilgault - 1885 - 240 Seiten
...Hardinge, a staff officer who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying ; ' 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 a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. XLVIII. Portrait du capitaine... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 406 Seiten
...present, attempted to disentangle it, but the dying hero stopped him :' It is as well , ' said he, ' as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Meanwhile the pressure upon the enemy was so strenuous and so persistent that, in spite of their superior... | |
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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. 
