They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.