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...Pall Mall: "Stupid, too long, repetitious; tiresome and unconvincing...
Lord Cardigan never looked back. Picking a path between two Russian guns, he rode into the battery "steady as a church," and pushed straight on through a pall of smoke. Behind him, his saber-wielding troopers began to cut down the Russian gunners, but Lord Cardigan was too much of a peer to join in. It was "no part of a general's duty," he said later, "to fight the enemy among private soldiers." In a few moments, he was clear of the guns-and face-to-face, at a mere 20 yards, with the entire Russian cavalry...
...handing me a dollar. I was in the middle of this transaction when I hear a roar and suddenly everyone was standing. When I struggled up most of the players and the crowd were gazing wistfully over the left field fence, and a player was rounding second base. A pall had settled over the crowd, clearly meaning a homerun by the visitors. Everyone sat down...
...three and three-quarter years the grisly processions went on. Bishops, preachers and laymen-some 300 of them, all convicted of heresy-were marched to the stake, and the smoke of their burnings hung like a pall over England. It did not stop until death came one day in 1558 to the woman in whose name the executions were carried out: Mary Tudor, Queen of England...
...Pray." Dense, black smoke billowed through the port passages and compartments below decks, boiled out of hatches and rose in a pall above the Leyte. A second explosion and a withering blast of heat and flame followed, searing everything in its path. On the third deck, Steward Osie Ward and ten of his shipmates were trapped in the stewards' compartment. "A big flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready...