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...d powerless hunter and scout and guide. My real calling is to hunt for the army, on its marches and in times of peace; although I am more especially e... ...ngs; but we have our feelings and our idees, as well as any general in the army. Both Jasper and I would have died before you should have come to harm... ... repinings got to pall on the appetite. The coarse and regular food of the army, which it became necessary to husband on account of the difficulty of ... ...nion, and, with a smile which was not without triumph, he remarked, — “The army, Pathfinder, has never yet done itself justice in the way of asserting... ...e head of his calling. There is no other guide or scout connected with the army who has half the reputation of Pathfinder, or who deserves to have 12... ...ve given ourselves up to Master Arrow-head, who reminds me of a Roman or a Spartan by his virtues and moderation; but ye’ll be remembering that usages...

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...tage as ourselves. In Utopia, how- ever, they will conduct research by the army corps while we conduct it—we don’t conduct it! We let it happen. Fools... ...e name of the locality in which the individual was last reported. A little army of at- tendants would be at work upon this index day and night. From s... ...t of any special race or type of culture, as Plato’s developed an Athenian-Spartan blend, or More, Tudor England. The modern Utopia is to be, before a...

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... sion. If the fixed impression be of an object terrible to the child, it will be (for want of reasoning upon) inseparable from great fear. Force the c... ...I have never been on that rail- way by daylight, without seeing some handcuffed deserters in the train. It is in the nature of things that such an ins... ...d description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the newspapers, any page of the records of the Victoria Cross, will show t... ...on-land, and live among and upon the hops until they are all picked, and the hop-gardens, so beautiful through the summer, look as if they had been la... ... existence of a terrible banditti, called ‘The Radicals,’ whose principles were, that the Prince Re- gent wore stays, and that nobody had a right to a...

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... reposed on her smoothly arranged hair. The coat was cut something like an army mess-jacket and the style suited her. I dare say there are many youthf... ...t approve of cake being given to dogs. The Fyne dog was supposed to lead a Spartan existence on a diet of repulsive biscuits with an occasional dry, h...

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...ome for our resumption of those pursuits which (here a general depression set in all round), pursuits which, pursuits which; – then let us ever rememb... ...His Honour,’ said Mr. Datchery, bowing, ‘inspires me with a desire to know more of the city, and confirms me in my inclination to end my days in the c...

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...e was only her friend, and he could not desert her at such a moment for an army of Fillgraves. He told Mary he should not return that night; and takin... ...y, as another woman might be in wishing to see her son a bishop; or as the Spartan matron, who preferred that her offspring should return on his shiel...

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...’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, ... ...have lost a day. But what came of the London lady’s or of Mrs. Schreiber’s Spartan discipline? Did the little blind kittens of Gracechurch-street, who... ...apoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the a... ...irected their views to the military profession. In such a case, the king’s army is naturally that to which a young man’s expectations turn. But to wai... ... that Oxford is well able to lodge, and on a very sumptuous scale, a small army of men; which expression of her great splendor I now mention (as I rep... ...is the university. But in Oxford the university expresses, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resum... ...cted in a spirit of religious indifference, though it is remarkable of the Spartans, that of all Greek tribes they were the most facile and numerous d... ... which measures the degree of unnatural con- straint and tension which the Spartan usages involved; but in this case we rather account for the public ... ...ves deceived by the event of any oracular prediction. As usual, there is a Spartan case of this nature. Cleomenes complained bitterly that the Oracle ...

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...ading name to lead them against us, as the origin of his title had led the army of Gaul of old gloriously, scared sweet 4 Beauchamp’s Career sleep. W... ...wered them boldly, with the appalling statement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental... ...ition challenged the allegations of Government, pointed to the trimness of army and navy during its term of office, and proclaimed itself watch-dog of... ...r, there was no necessity for watch-dogs to bark; an ardent and a reverent army had but fancied its beloved chosen Chief insulted; the Chief and chose... ...d the effect is woeful 7 George Meredith past measure: his hugging of his army, his kneeling on the shore to his navy, his implorations of his yeoman... ...to have stuck to their posts. Surely there was a conscious weakness in the Spartans, who were always at pains to discipline their 75 George Meredith ... ...d with a vengeance: all the rest of the country being base members indeed; Spartans—helots. Criticism, now so help- ful to us, would wither to the roo... ...hatsoever was of service to Lord Avonley’s victim: and he was not like the Spartan boy with the wolf at his vitals; he betrayed it in the hue his uncl...

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...aised, and a vertigo of destruction came like a whirlwind upon the drunken army . They struck about them at random, they smashed, they slew; some hurl... ...d him a long stream of wine into a golden cup in order to con- ciliate the army. “Drink!” she said. He took the cup, and was carrying it to his lips w... ... were shut behind them, but the people did not descend from the walls. The army soon spread over the breadth of the isthmus. It parted into unequal ma... ...t stretched like gi- ant torches across the motionless lake. No one in the army could tell what festival was being celebrated. On the following day th... ...rsed the mob of soldiers with strokes of the whip; and the captains of the Spartan phalanxes and the chiefs of the Barbarian cohorts soon arrived with... ...torches cast red spots, three Barbarians were thrust forward: a Samnite, a Spartan, and a Cappadocian. “Proceed!” said Hanno. “Rejoice, light of the B... ...back again. Confess it! my herd of swine did more for us than a phalanx of Spartans.” And yielding to the need that he felt of exalting himself and ta... ...s, and Bruttians. The Greeks dug pits with the points of their swords. The Spartans removed their red cloaks and wrapped them round the dead; the Athe... ... In fact four hundred of the stoutest Mercenaries, Etruscans, Libyans, and Spartans had gained the heights at the beginning, and had remained there in...

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...; he could not bring himself to quit dinners so excellently served for the Spartan broth of a two-franc ordi- nary. Alas! alas! a shudder ran through ... ..., gentlemen, take your places!” called Pons, look- ing round at his little army, as the stage manager’s bell rang for the overture. The piece was a dr... ...d, just as I myself am a portress. Why do they have silk epaulettes in the army? Let everybody keep their place. Look here, do you want me to tell you... ...itelot had turned the Three Glorious Days— “les trois glorieuses”—into the Army, Finance, and the Family, and sent in the design for the sepulchre of ... ...onic attitude—a trick which he had learned since be be- gan to command his army of actors, dancers, figurants, musi- cians, and stage carpenters. He g... ...trumpet, while the third did its best to keep up with the main body of the army. Their mother was at work on a theatrical costume. “Be quiet! or I sha...

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... your military chest insolvent, forage all but exhausted; and that the whole army is about to mutiny, disband, and cut your and each other’s throat,—t... ...ce, imparted to all?” Quite in an opposite strain is the following: “The old Spartans had a wiser method; and went out and hunted down their Helots, a... ... it. Have them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere... ...oned Destiny, under that ink sea of vapor, black, thick, and multifarious as Spartan broth; and was one lone soul amid those grinding millions;—often ...