What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of depar...ture which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo; it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you h...ave all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the focal and foremost fire, Our of the hospital walls as dire;... Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen!) Specter! such as you seldom see, Little Giffen, of Tennessee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »