To tell the truth, had these two men been modern Rob Roys, we would have yielded up our knapsacks as cheerfully; nor would we have sorrowed never to see them again.
Indeed, we had not time, for immediately a sailor seized our shabby knapsacks and carried them off with as much respect as if they had been Saratoga trunks.
It was a long twelve miles, and the knapsacks were growing heavier with each day.
It was a relief not to begin the day by strapping heavy knapsacks to our backs.
For our part, after the first mile, we never took an extra step for any sight; that is, whenever our knapsacks were on our backs.
We longed for a machine that would carry us and our knapsacks with ease over the hard, dustless road.
It feels like it too," said I, dolefully, for the knapsacks were no lighter, and our feet were tender after the sixteen miles of the day before.
On foot, with knapsackson our backs, we often passed for peddlers.
Our knapsacksshrank out of sight of porters and maids.
Our knapsacks weighed like lead, and did not grow lighter; each mile seemed interminable.
But two tricyclers, as they journeyed, came where we were; and when they saw us they had compassion on us, and came to us, and gathered up our knapsacks and set them on their machines and brought them to the inn and took care of them.
We searched the bottles and knapsacks of the dead for eatable and drinkable things, and enjoyed the things found with the heartiest appetite imaginable.
They had cast away their knapsacks and all unnecessary impediments, and were trying to get along as fast as possible.
Most of the soldiers lay with their heads on their knapsacksand slept.
I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!
The company was landed on the wharf, and we all marched in full dress with knapsacks and arms, to the hill and relieved the guard under Lieutenant Baldwin.
They had deliberately slung their knapsacks and started for the gold-mines.
We had, fortunately, at the suggestion of the sergeant, secured our rifles and knapsacks to the top of the platform in the centre of the raft, where they were tolerably secure.
Three or four Indians, moreover, agreed to accompany us as far as our baggage-mules could go, that they might convey our provisions and stores; after which we should have to carry them ourselves in knapsacks on our backs.
Others straggled into the settlements with their knapsacks on their backs, staggering from faintness and wounds.
From thence, five miles on, the woods were strewn with skeletons, muskets, broken wagons, knapsacks and other debris.
They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.
The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.
On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on with upraised arms.
As Alpatych was driving out of the gate he saw some ten soldiers in Ferapontov's open shop, talking loudly and filling their bags and knapsacks with flour and sunflower seeds.
The mouths and eyes of some were wide open, others lay on their faces, their knapsacks and cartridge-boxes on their backs and their hands grasping their muskets.
At last the long line ended; I saw knapsacksand shakos disappear behind the hill, and I lay down to sleep forever, when once more I was aroused by the rolling of five or six pieces of artillery along the road.
A drizzling rain continued to fall, and the men, seated on theirknapsacks around the fires, seemed depressed and gloomy.
When the roll of the drums began again, I looked around, and saw that I was between Klipfel and Furst, all three with our knapsacks on our backs.
There they go with their knapsacks on their backs; she is still wearing her red hat.
She was gone for a moment, then returned, loaded the bags and knapsacks on her little back, and trotted off.
I joined with three German friends and one Frenchman, and we strapped on ourknapsacks for a foot-journey into Switzerland.
It was resolved among the Americans that we should all make a foot-excursion with knapsacks down the Rhine to Cologne.
We cooked breakfast, packedknapsacks and haversacks, filled canteens, loaded wagons and fell into line.
At eight o'clock we slung knapsacks and fell in, but were kept standing in ranks till afternoon before commencing the march.
Weary and stiff, we slung knapsacks and moved into the road.
For want of knapsackswe twisted or rolled our blankets, tied the ends together and slung them over our shoulders.
On the 23rd, transportation permitting, the knapsacks of the men were carried in wagons.
The men, panting for breath, came to a halt, threw their heavy knapsacks into a heap, and went on again, faster than before.
They fix their bayonets firmly, throw aside their knapsacks and all that encumbers them.
Before daylight they had their knapsacks packed, their tents taken down, and all things ready for the march.
We stopped and left our knapsacks in a little grove as we went along.
The farmers of the vicinity showed the sincerity of their regard for us by turning out with their teams and carrying our knapsacks the whole thirty-three miles.
We clambered aboard the boat, threw off our knapsacks and dropped, and I do not think I moved during the whole day.
And thirty cartridges to every man, With three days' victuals in their knapsacks stored.
Then, Nature, hold your aiding hand-- Let fogs and tempests chill the land; While this degenerate work of thine To knaves and knapsacks I resign.
Little know they how much individual suffering from heavy knapsacks and blistered feet, confusion of wagon-trains, wrangling and swearing of teamsters, and vexation in almost infinite variety, are comprised in these few words.
In column of Regiments the Division encamped, and in a space of time incredible to those not familiar with such scenes, knapsacks were unslung and the smoke of a thousand camp-fires slowly struggled upwards through the falling rain.
The Colonel, with the other field and staff officers, seated themselves upon knapsacks unslung for their accommodation, silently, each apparently waiting upon the other to open the conversation.
The contents of the knapsacks were scattered about under the trees, the lunches were gone, and their clothes had evidently been handled.
After that meal had been disposed of with hearty good will, they packed their knapsacks again, and set about crossing to the north shore.
Dan returned with the knapsacksand they awaited developments.
The eight men on the floor got up, buckled on their cartridge belts, shouldered their rifles and, leaving their knapsacks behind, tramped out.
They bent forward under the weight of their knapsacks and blanket rolls; and their middles were bulky with cartridge belts, and bulging pockets covered their flanks.
The floor of it was littered with the knapsacks and water bottles of dead or captured men, with useless rifles broken at the stocks and bent in the barrels, and with suchlike riffle.
Under the broken hedge-rows you saw a littering of weather-beaten French knapsacks and mired uniform coats, but that was all.
The dropped caps and the abandoned knapsacks were always French caps and French knapsacks, cast aside, no doubt, for a quick flight after the melee.
The knapsacks were so poor that I ordered a board of survey, and they were unanimously condemned and considered unfit for the service, a report of which I sent to the Quartermaster-General, but no attention was paid to it.
Then canteens were filled from the nearest available water, knapsacks packed, and precisely at sunrise the column would be formed and the march begun.
It was finally settled that we would transport the golden treasure to Sargent, at the cove, in the knapsacks on our backs.
Our knapsacks were speedily filled, and we prepared to leave the chamber.
We laid our knapsacks on the ground for a pillow, and it had long been broad daylight, and the retreating crowd had been passing for hours, when we awoke and quietly pursued our journey.
The heat was extraordinary, the sweat ran down to our hips from under our knapsacks and cartridge-boxes.
The officer looked at our guns and knapsacks and cartridge-boxes behind the bed in the corner.
We had both kept our guns and knapsacks and cartridge-boxes.
But we buckled on our knapsacks as we went, and I relieved the sentinel behind the hedge opposite Roly.
To protect the Federals, trees had been felled along a small portion of their front, out of which barriers protected with rails and knapsacks were erected.
In one advance, knapsacks were unslung and bayonets fixed; a brigade marched across a plowed field, and passed through broken lines of other brigades, which were retiring to the rear in confusion from the leaden storm.
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