A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
一个吓破了胆的老妇人,把一块厚床垫系在两根晾衣服的杆子上挂在窗口外面,用以阻挡流弹。
The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible discharge of musketry.