 | Charles Dickens - 1853 - Liczba stron: 300
...gold thread, adorned withprecious stones ; beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...shield, and bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle-ax. On an opposite hill, in three lines, archers, footsoldiers, horsemen, was the Norman force.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - Liczba stron: 562
...gold thread, adorned with precious stones ; beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...shield, and bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle axe. On an opposite hill, in three lines, — archers, foot soldiers, horsemen, — was the... | |
 | William L Robinson - 1862 - Liczba stron: 232
...gold thread, adorn'd with precious st6nes ; beneath the banner, as it rusrted in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...side ; around them, still and silent as the dead, cluster'd the whole English army — every soldier cover'd by his shield, and bearirfg in his hand... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - Liczba stron: 280
...gold thread adorned with precious stones; beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...the Norman force. Of a sudden, a great battle-cry burst from the Norman lines. The English answered with their own battlecry. The Normans then came sweeping... | |
 | English reader - 1875 - Liczba stron: 202
...gold thread, adorned with precious stones. Beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...soldier covered by his shield, and bearing in his hand the dreaded English battle-axe. On an opposite hill, in three lines — archers, foot soldiers, horsemen... | |
 | William L. Robinson - 1876 - Liczba stron: 170
...gold thread, adorned with precious stones. Beneath the banner, as it rusiled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...army — every soldier covered by his shield, and bearirfg in his hand his dreaded English battle-axe. On an opposite hill, in three lines — archers,... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - Liczba stron: 508
...gold thread, adorned with precious stones ; beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle-axe. 13. On an opposite hill, in three lines — archers, foot soldiers, horsemen — was the Norman force.... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - Liczba stron: 508
...gold thread, adorned with precious stones ; beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...shield, and bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle-ax. 13. On an opposite hill, in three lines — archers, foot soldiers, horsemen — was the... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - Liczba stron: 212
...stones. 2. Beneath these banners, as they rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his brothers by his side ; around them, still and silent...bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle-axe. 3. On the opposite hill of Telham, in three lines — archers, foot-soldiers, horsemen — was the... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - Liczba stron: 342
...gold thread, adorned with precious stones. Beneath the banner, as it rustled in the wind, stood King Harold on foot, with two of his remaining brothers...soldier covered by his shield, and bearing in his hand the dreaded English battle-axe. — Dickens. 2. If we study the nature of the words composing this... | |
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... Battle. With the first dawn of day, they arose. There, in the faint light, were the English on a hill; a wood behind them; in their midst, the Royal banner, representing a fighting warrior, woven in gold thread, adorned with precious stones; beneath... 
