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Wait a bit." But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense mass.

Now little James watched the red coats of the southern soldiers as, with bayonets gleaming in the sun, they wound through the glens.

The soldiers interposed their bayonets, for they thought that he was about to attack the inspector, and the latter recoiled two or three steps.

There was an ominous, clanging overture to the charge when the shafts of the bayonets rattled upon the rifle barrels.

This request was immediately rejected, and the troops were ordered to fix bayonets and advance towards the prisoners, a motion which had the effect of producing obedience on the part of the young men, who forthwith commenced their march.

Heinz and Klatz, possibly influenced by their exhortation, were putting up but a half-hearted resistance; but Dietz, a huge, bearded, bull-necked Prussian, yelling like a maniac, sought to exterminate the Englische schweinhunde with his bayonet, fearing to fire his piece lest he kill some of his comrades.

This manner of carrying an intimacy at the bayonet's point was Van Tromp's stock-in- trade.

Nearer to them, on the top of the wall, they fancied that they heard the clash of a bayonet. Granet dropped his voice to the barest whisper.

You might also warn them that I may be in the trench and that I do not care to be shot or bayoneted."

Whereupon he swore, and with a lunge drove the bayonet of his rifle into Colonel Jacinto Fierro's body.

Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks.

It might not be much harm on parade, except to worry and fatigue them; but how would it be in a bayonet charge against the enemy, when they want the free use of every muscle, and all their strength thrown forward?