The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habit...s of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his time, this one had little to speak of, The softest word went gurrituck in his skull.... For him the moon was always in Scandinavia And his daughter was a foreign thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form wi...th the shovel and scraper, with all the softest inequalities in the middle, like a hog's back with the bristles up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »