 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 824
...of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of...casks of beef, flitches of bacon, kegs of butter, CHAP, tacks of pease and biscuit, ankers of brandy. Not many hours - "£ — before , half a pound... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - Страниц: 808
...of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of unloading CHAP. began. First were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal. Then came... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 784
...landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river ; and then the work of unloading began. Fir?t were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand...biscuit, ankers of brandy. Not many hours before, half-a-pound of tallow and three-quarters of a pound of salted hide had been weighed out with niggardly... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - Страниц: 772
...of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing place from the batteries on the other side of the river ; and then the work of...were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bnshels of meal. Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon, kegs of butter, sacks of... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - Страниц: 772
...of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of...were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bnshels of meal. Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon, kegs of butter, sacks of... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 870
...casks filled witli earth, was hastily thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of...began. First were rolled on shore, barrels containing (5,000 bushels of meal ; then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon, kegs of butter,... | |
 | Thing - 1857 - Страниц: 408
...thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and t,\ien the work of unloading began. First were rolled on...of brandy. Not many hours before, half a pound of salted hide had been weighed out with niggardly care to every fightingman. The ration which each now... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - Страниц: 648
...of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river ; and then the work of...bushels of meal. Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitehes of bacon, kegs of butter, sacks of pease and biscuit, ankers of brandy. Not many hours before,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - Страниц: 612
...made of casks filled with earth us hastily thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries i the other side of the river, and then the work of unloading ;gan. First were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand ishels of meal. Then came great cheeses,... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - Страниц: 404
...filled with 9 earth was hastily thrown up 10 to protect the landing-place from n the batteries on 12 the other side of the river; and then the work of unloading 13 began. First were rolled on shore 14 barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal. Then came... | |
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... of suspense. It was ten o'clock before the ships arrived at the quay. The whole population was there to welcome them. A screen made of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing place from the batteries on the other side... 
