Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 259
en, drew swords, andhelter-skelter leaped into the shattered and scatteringmass. Right and left they hacked and hewed; I couldhear the snapping of scythes beneath them, and see theflash of their sweeping swords. How it must end wasplain enough, even to one like myself, who had neverbeheld such a… … THE GRAY CHAMPION. By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
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