"Fascine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and sword thy walks were swept: Exploded mines thy streets had heaped In hills of rubbish; they had been Traversed by gabion and fascine, With cannon lowering in the rear In dark array,—a deadly tier,— Whose thunder-clouds, with fiery breath, Sent far around their iron death; The bursting shell, in fragments flung Athwart the skies, at midnight sung, Or, on its airy ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... officer in command proposed to the grenadiers a large sum of money as a reward to him who should first drive a fascine into a ditch which was exposed to the enemy's fire. None of the grenadiers offered. The general, astonished, began to reproach them for it. "We should have all offered," said one of these brave soldiers, "if money had not been set as ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon |
