 | Albert Jean Michel Rocca, M. de Rocca - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1815 - 404 pages
...frequently walled up all that they could not carry with them. Our soldiers, having discovered this, were in the habit of measuring, like architects, the outer...inner apartments, to discover if any space had been thus taken from them. They also frequently found jars of wine buried in the earth. We were thus accustomed... | |
 | M. de Rocca - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1816 - 400 pages
...frequently walled up all that they could not carry with them. Our soldiers, having discovered this, were in the habit of measuring, like architects, the outer...inner apartments, to discover if any space had been thus taken from them. They also frequently found jars of wine buried in the earth. We were thus accustomed... | |
 | Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - Spain - 1825 - 332 pages
...driven the Spanish people ; — and thus it was, that, though the French, during the six years the wax lasted, had gained ten pitched battles, and taken...night, (our servants having gone to a neighbouring field in search of forage for our horses,) we heard a deep moan in an adjoining room. It startled us,... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 700 pages
...invincible foe : they were in the habit of measuring the outer dimensions of the empty houses, and thenthe inner apartments, to discover if any space had been taken from them. Whenever the deors, which \\ereal\vaysearefully tacked, resisted the force of great stones or hatchets,... | |
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French being in the habit of measuring, like architects, the outer dimensions of the empty houses, and then the inner apartments, to discover if any space had been taken from them. 