 | Lawton Bryan Evans - United States - 1910 - 332 pages
...letter written a few days afterwards to his brother, he said : "I fortunately escaped without any wound. I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." QUESTIONS What two nations claimed the Ohio valley? What had the French built? What did Governor Dinwiddie... | |
 | Anna Elizabeth Foote, Avery Warner Skinner - United States - 1910 - 350 pages
...to return to their homes. Washington, in writing to his brother about one of these skirmishes, said, "I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." The English king, George II, upon hearing this remark, laughed and said that Washington would not have... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - United States - 1915 - 234 pages
...It was Washington's first battle and the danger-loving soldier spoke in his letter to his brother : "I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Back at his camp at Great Meadows, Washington's position quickly became desperate. His men, counting... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1916 - 188 pages
...he wrote 66 exultingly, because he had learned that real danger could not make him afraid : "I have heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." When this remark was reported to George the Second of England, the king replied: "He would not say... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1917 - 222 pages
...America. It was Washington's first experience in battle. In a letter to one of his brothers, he says, "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." This statement of a boy, at the age of twenty-two in the first emotions of military excitement, is... | |
 | Edwin Legrand Sabin - Battles - 1920 - 374 pages
...man was killed at his side. He rather enjoyed the sensation of danger. He wrote to his brother John : "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." "He would not say so if he had been used to hear many," King George of England remarked. But during... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pennsylvania - 1922 - 646 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. n The retreat of Washington's weary troops was distressing. Seventy miles to safety at Wills creek... | |
 | Ada Russell - 1922 - 210 pages
...any wound; for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to and received all the enemy's fire. ... I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' This very un-English outburst of military enthusiasm was much laughed at at Home, where it was even... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922 - 642 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.11 The retreat of Washington's weary troops was distressing. Seventy miles to safety at Wills... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 pages
...It was Washington's first battle and the danger-loving soldier spoke in his letter to his brother: "I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Back at his camp at Great Meadows, Washington's position quickly became desperate. His men, counting... | |
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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. 
