 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 600 pages
...to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. Then I cast loose my buff coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,...horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped, and stood. x. And all I remember... | |
 | 1846 - 534 pages
...of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. ' Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed aud sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. X. ' And all I... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | 1850 - 538 pages
...cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook oiT both my jack-hoots, let go belt and aU, " 'Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my hdrse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good, And all... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for bis eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good, Till at... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...pita full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or Till at length... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with cireles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his car, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
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Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets 
