Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 106
uld have availed them little, for the Persians,all too well acquainted now with the Greek daring,refused to close with their enemies. In their well-nigh useless armour, which had been hacked fromtheir limbs during their earlier encounters, theGreeks stood on a little hillock and braved theshower of… … UElxiEiEJfxiBJE THEIR LAST ENCOUNTER had succeeded in slaying twenty thousand of theenemy. Xerxes inquired of Demaratus, in whoseword he had come to have more confidence sincewitnessing the events of the last three days,whether there were many more men at Sparta likethese; and when he was told that…
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