 | George Bancroft - United States - 1898 - 602 pages
...without any wound," wrote Washington to his brother ; and in a postscript these words escaped him : " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Ten of the French were killed, among them Jumonville, the commander of the party; and twenty-one were... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Estados Unidos - Historia - Revolucion, 1775-1783 - 1898 - 468 pages
...the Second that Major Washington had concluded the letter announcing his success with the words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Of course there was nothing of the sort in the despatch, which in its businesslike simplicity might... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - Presidents - 1900 - 378 pages
...received all the enemy's fire, and it was the part where the man was killed, and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." This boast called out from the King "He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many." Immediate... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - Indiana - 1901 - 374 pages
...capturing all but one. Colonel Washington was in the thickest of the fight, and wrote in a letter, " I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." After this fight, which began the war, Washington returned to Great Meadows, and, learning that a large... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...despatched on his preceding little victory (the skirmish with Jumonville) he concluded with these words : ' I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the king said sensibly, ' he would not say so if he had been used to hear many.'... | |
 | Freemasons. Pennsylvania. Grand Lodge, Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania - 1902 - 478 pages
...characteristic of a thoroughly healthy and vigorous body, after his first campaign writing to his brother that " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe, me, there is something charming in the sound." (Applause.) In a smaller nature there would be an element of bravado in this, but with him it was unquestionably... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - United States - 1902 - 136 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle; and, believe me, there is something charming in the Bound." The letter was published in the London Magazine. It is said George II. read it and commented... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - United States - 1903 - 222 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle ; and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." The letter was published in the London Magazine. It is said George II. read it and commented dryly:... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1903 - 348 pages
...sing about him. George Washington wrote when he was a young man, after the first of his battles : " I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Denton did not find it so. He wished with all his heart that he were out of range. He had plenty of... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - America - 1904 - 288 pages
...French were killed, one wounded, and twentyone captured. In a letter to his brother, Washington wrote, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the soimd." When asked many years after if he had really said this, he replied, " If I said so, it was... | |
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I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II. 
