 | James Justinian Morier - 1824 - 274 页
...swords, whilst the two«soldiers withdrew to a small rising ground, and, placing themselves back fo back, began a regular, though alternate, discharge...case, how the Persians would fight !' By this time he had proceeded some distance, and then halted. Our chief, expecting to find the Russians back to... | |
 | 1825 - 426 页
...retreating himself at a quick pace, he exclaimed, •Curses be on their beards! Curse their lathers, mothers, their ancestry, and posterity! Whoever fought...case, how the Persians would fight!' "By this time he had proceeded some distance, and then halted. Our chief, expecting to find the Russians back to... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 页
...Then, putting his hand round my neck, he said, " Go, go ; I am sure you can cut their heads off." They were parleying in this manner, when a shot from one...expecting to find the Russians back to back under every bush, did not know what course to pursue ; when the decision was soon made for us by the appearance... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 页
...posterity ! Whoever fought after this fashion ? Killing, killing, as if we were so many hogs. Seet see, what animals they are ! They will not run away,...expecting to find the Russians back to back under every bush, did not know what course to pursue ; when the decision was soon made for us by the appearance... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 页
...will not run away, do all you can to them. They are worse than brutes;—brutes have feeling,—they have none. O Allah, Allah, if there was no dying in the ease, how the Persians would fight!" By this time we had proceeded some distance, and then halted.... | |
 | Stuart (Lieut.-Colonel, Charles) - 1854 - 422 页
...is, I am told, the identical personage, so humorously described in Hajji Baba, who makes him say, " 0 Allah! Allah! if there was no dying in the case, how the Persians would fight! " and who speared his cook to * The reigning King of Persia, I believe. show his valour when flying... | |
 | James Justinian Morier - 1855 - 472 页
...Curses be on their beards ! Curse their fathers, mothers, their ancestry, and posterity ! Who ever fought after this fashion ? Killing, killing, as if...there was no dying in the case, how the Persians would tight !" who, followed by his cavalry, was seen retreating in all haste from before the enemy. It was... | |
 | Frank Wadleigh Chandler - 1907 - 318 页
...fought after this fashion? Killing, killing, as if we were so many hogs!" exclaims the executioner. "O Allah, Allah, if there was no dying in the case how the Persians would fight!" The executioner reports a hot conflict, nevertheless, and the vizier, about to issue a proclamation... | |
 | Benjamin Burges Moore - 1915 - 568 页
...of Haji Baba. Indeed, Morier's famous phrase, based on the actual word of a Persian general: — "0 Allah, Allah, if there was no dying in the case, how the Persians would fight!" — was paralleled a very short time ago by a Persian officer who, to the enquiry why he had not ordered... | |
 | Harrison Griswold Dwight - 1917 - 364 页
...belonging, nevertheless, to a Persian gendarme who does his best to discredit Morier's famous quotation: "O Allah, Allah, if there was no dying in the case, how the Persians would fight!" It was to assist in this worthy endeavour that my monocled Swedish friend had travelled down the Black... | |
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Calling away his troops, and retreating himself at a quick pace, he exclaimed, " Curses be on their beards ! Curse their fathers, mothers, their ancestry, and posterity! Whoever fought after this fashion? Killing, killing, as if we were so many hogs.... 
