 | Frances Melville Perry, Henry William Elson - 1905 - 372 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; it was the part where the man was killed and the rest were wounded. I heard the bullets whistle; and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." At home, where the great odds under which Washington had worked, and the failure of the government... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1905 - 182 pages
...received all the enemies' 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. " However, the campaign ended disastrously. After another fight a month later at the same place, in... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 pages
...little battle of Jumonville, in 1754, when he was twenty-two years of age, it is related that he said, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ! " King George the Second added, " He would not say so if he had been used to hearing many." When... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 pages
...little battle of Jumonville, in 1754, when he was twenty-two years of age, it is related that he said, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ! " King George the Second added, " He would not say so if he had been used to hearing many." When... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 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. A Bit of Gossip To Mrs. Fairfax FORT CUMBERLAND, 14 May, 1755. Dear Madam: I have at last with great... | |
 | Ohio - 1909 - 634 pages
...affair, he wrote : "The right winp! where I stood was exposed to and received all the enemy's fire; here I heard the bullets whistle and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Here the warrior Washington was born, in the heart of the gloomy forest on the mountain sides of the... | |
 | Edwin Markham - America - 1909 - 476 pages
...fortunately escaped without any wound," wrote Washington to his brother; and in a postscript added, "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." This was the beginning of the contest known as the French and Indian War, the results of which were... | |
 | George Hodges - United States - 1909 - 244 pages
...proved when it comes to the test, which I believe we are on the borders of . " To which he added, ' ' I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound. ' ' George the Second, to whom this sentence was repeated, said " very sensibly," that the young man... | |
 | Ohio - 1909 - 622 pages
...affair, he wrote : "The right wing where I stood was exposed to and received all the enemy's fire; here I heard the bullets whistle and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Here the warrior Washington was born, in the heart of the gloomy forest on the mountain sides of the... | |
 | George Hodges - United States - 1909 - 248 pages
...proved when it conies to the test, which I believe we are on the borders of.'' To which he added,'' I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." George the Second, to whom this sentence was repeated, said " very sensibly," that the young man "... | |
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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. 
