Ticellini was a patriot from head to foot, and his heart beat loudly when he saw the Italian tricolor.
The louder it became, the more their heartsbeat with joy.
But it has been proved that our men can beat the Natives hollow, and march quite away from them.
They beat the tyrant, and compelled him to retire by a route that was already exhausted.
Then, after some stiff fighting, which lasted more than an hour, they were compelled to beat a hasty retreat, our heavy guns sweeping lanes through them, and we plying them with musketry both in front and flank.
Next morning some of our fellows appeared as if one good man could beat a dozen of them; they looked in a most pitiable plight.
Napoleon kept continually changing Wellington's opponent Generals, but our hero beat them all in detail.
Sir John Duckworth had some of his squadron sunk or destroyed by these nice "little pills," when he forced the Dardanelles, in 1807, and was compelled to beat a retreat.
There they are, men," said that noble Christian hero on more than one field, "beat them.
They said, "If a nation of bankers and shopkeepers can beat the conquering legions and roll them up on every field, so will we, or die in the attempt.
The English army was commanded by a Frenchman, and the French army by an Englishman; but the Frenchmen beat the English.
Although they beat us for once, we let them know that the Lion was on the war-path, and that he was well roused.
We never once met the enemy in a pitched battle, either by land or sea, but tobeat them.
As long as we manage to thrash them every time we meet them, the people at home must not grumble--while they can sit by their firesides and smoke their pipes, and say we've beat them again.
The heavy bale came into use partly to beat transportation charges, as rates were not made by weight, but at so much per bale.
According to my notion of thinking, Faith's caramel cakesbeat her others all hollow.
The Sherrars are coming down from Martindale Monday to stay a whole week with us, and Victor plays the cornet to beat the band.
Now, elephants live in the jumbles of Africa, Hope says, and they don't have drums to beat there.
In thirty minutes from now, you'll have to clear out, scud away like a hare and beat a disordered retreat.
The pain caused a second's apprehension and distraction, of which he at once took advantage to beat down Daubrecq's outstretched hands and to dig his ten fingers into his adversary's throat and neck.
I replied, that if he beat me, he would be the only horse which had ever done so; but still I considered him to be by far the most savage I had ever seen.
He would fly at you, like a dog, with his teeth; attempt to beat you down with his fore-feet; and strike round a corner at you with his hind ones.
Up to the middle of last May, the colonial heartbeat high with hope.
This mystery was no dark cloud, it was a shaking, glittering mist, and yet there rose from it an air which made her pulse beat hard, her breath come with joyous lightness.
Their hearts appeared to beat more freely as the noble steamer, which bore them on their way to their friends and future homes, cut loose from her moorings and sped her way toward her destined port.
They have utilized all the resources of their country to beat us, to crush us, and we shall have to use every ounce of strength we possess to come out on top.
Ever since she beat France she has been longing for expansion, and the military party in Germany maintain that the English people keep them from occupying their rightful place in the world.
I think we shall have difficult work to beat them," was my reply, "and the sooner you chaps enlist the better.
Soon my heart beat wildly, for coming round the headline I saw several boats.
The hot sun beat down upon the earth with great fury, but a gentle breeze in the valley did much toward cooling the air on this fatal twenty-fifth of June.
The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine, With pulses that beat double.
Remember that this world is but a threshing-floor, where angels use afflictions as flails, to beat the chaff and dust from our hearts, and present them as perfect grain for the garners of God.
Edith saw a great change overspread the countenance, but could not accurately interpret its import; and her own heart began to beat the long-roll.
Grey's door, without arousing him, and the third time she beat a tattoo that would have broken even heavier slumbers than his.
They call us slaves, and beat us if we are slow to do their bidding, but God has now given us the day to shake off our bondage.
In the course of the next five years Marlborough fought three great battles,[3] by which he drove the French out of the Netherlands once for all, and finallybeat them on a hotly contested field in northern France.
But there are many instances to show that his roughness was only external, and that a very soft and gentle heart beat in his bosom.
But when familiarity and noise claim the praise due to knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions.
The sun beatdown with such tremendous force that, though we had only three-quarters of a mile to walk, we felt quite tired by the time we reached the Chief's kraals.
However this may be, any stick will do to beat a dog with, and the Transvaal was a convenient point on which to attack the Government.
He hit my husband on the head with a kerrie; he beat my husband on the foot when he was trying to creep away in a hut, and would have killed him had not one of his wives named Camgagaan hit Martinus on the head with a piece of iron.
Can you collect the morning dew And, with the greatest pains, Beat every drop into a link, And of these links make chains?
The sergeants beat the officers in the tug-of-war.
Having failed in his attempt to retake the ridge with his last reserves, the enemy had to beat a retreat pursued and harassed for 12 kilometres.
What if some enthusiast in their cause shall beatto arms and call them to the standard of freedom?
What, if some enthusiast in their cause shall beat to arms, and call them to the standard of freedom?
Can a man who calls himself a Christian, coolly and deliberately tie up, thumb screw, torture with pincers, and beat unmercifully a poor slave, for perhaps a trifling neglect of duty?
The wind was likewise in their favor, as some of the larger vessels could not beat up sufficiently near to engage in the attack.
Arnold sought out the sailor, beat him severely, and compelled him to leave the town and take a solemn oath, that he would never enter it again.
The party had hardly joined the other Indians, when he perceived much agitation among them, high words and violent gestures, till at length they engaged in a furious quarrel, and beat one another with their muskets.
And still beneath your snowy plumage shall beat the hearts of Finola, Aed, Fiacra and Conn, and still for ever shall ye be the children of Lir.
Yet Finola's heart still beat with alarm as she sheltered her younger brothers, for Aed came not, and she feared lest he were lost for ever.
His spirit, cramped and outraged by the impassable limitations of human life and by the conventions of society, beat recklessly against them with an impatience fruitless but partly grand.
Grimbart plucks a twig, makes the Fox beat himself, leap over it three times, kiss it; and then declares him free from his sins.
On the opposite side a fiend is welcoming the monk withbeat of drum, just as we shall see the ale-wife saluted with the drone of the bagpipes.
The household wake, andbeat the Cat, who dashes underneath the priest's robe, revenging himself in a cruel and unseemly way.
How could she love a man who often cursed, and sometimesbeat that mother?
Yes, beat her, while she was in a fever of delirium, from which she has never rallied.
They were very sandy, and a storm was approaching that would soon beat upon the frail walls, and like all such fabrics, down they will tumble.
A drunken husband maybeat his loving wife, and love her still.
Will you swear, that you will let me come out, and you won't beat me.
How the city's indignation would boil over, and how the storm of wrath would beat upon that house, until there would not be one stone left upon another.
Soon after we had passed through the narrows, the wind came ahead; we beat along, and anchored under Cape Gregory, a fine anchorage.
We were rather wide off the cape; the wind was ahead, and a good strong breeze; we beat in at last, and anchored under Point Dungeness.
The following day we double-reefed the sails, beatthrough the narrows, and anchored in Oazy Harbor.
At length he beat off my plunderers, and seemed on the point of yielding to my terms.
As we beatup Crooked Beach, and passed the end of Carlos III.
Clambering with me back to where the horse stood, he beat him soundly, and again girt the saddle so tightly that I almost feared it would sever his body.
He soon followed me, took me to his own dwelling, supplied me with dry clothing, and, above all, warmed me in the kindly glow of as generous a heart as ever beat in human bosom.
Seizing her by the hair, he hurled her violently to the ground, and beat her with his clenched fists till I thought he would break every bone in her body, and reduce her substance to a jelly.
All the next day we beat along, till we found anchorage at Round Island for the night.
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