He wanted to hasten on in the direction of the booming noise, for he knew that there would be
Germans fighting against the English.
If she respected the case as inviolable, the
Germans would certainly not hesitate to examine it, and the
Germans would hardly trouble themselves to write to England.
I was the last to come, and when I reached the bottom, I found myself looking into the muzzle of a pistol in the hands of Baron Friedrich von Schoenvorts--I saw all my men lined up at one side with the remaining eight
Germans standing guard over them.
The Americans had drawn together the ends of the flying line skilfully and dexterously, until at last it was a column and well to the south of the lax sweeping pursuit of the
Germans. Then in the darkness before the dawn they had come about and steamed northward in close order with the idea of passing through the
German battle-line and falling upon the flotilla that was making for New York in support of the
German air-fleet.
Bradley knew nothing of the disappearance of Bowen Tyler and Miss La Rue, nor of the perfidy of the
Germans in shelling the fort and attempting to escape in the U-33; but he was in no way surprised at what he saw before him.
Where and how did we get the idea that the
Germans are a stolid, phlegmatic race?
And then those two young men got up, and asked us if we had ever heard Herr Slossenn Boschen (who had just arrived, and was then down in the supper-room) sing his great
German comic song.
"You are not afraid of the
German shells, then?" he asked.
cried Starbuck, pointing to something wavingly held by the
German. Impossible!
The world of the
German literate consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience, or rather, in annexing the French ideas without deserting their own philosophic point of view.
Where or when I first acquainted myself with his most fascinating genius, I cannot be sure, but I think it was in some article of the Westminster Review, where several poems of his were given in English and
German; and their singular beauty and grace at once possessed my soul.
There was visiting the watering-place that year a real
German Fuerstin, in consequence of which the crystallizing process went on more vigorously than ever.
