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I see that you have now adopted the uniform of the staff. It is certainly a great improvement upon that of an infantry officer, and appearances go for a good deal among these Portuguese. I see, by the way, that you have got your step in our army." "Yes, Colonel, the general was good enough to recommend me.
And yet not alone, for away to his right, and where the neigh of a horse had been heard, another wounded soldier lay his soft, brown locks moist with dew, and his captain's uniform wet with the blood which dripped from the terrible gash in the fleshy part of the neck, where a murderous ball had been.
"To whom may I address myself?" said one of the British who, I may inform my reader, en passant, was no other than O'Flaherty "To whom may I address myself as the officer in command?" "I am Major Brown," said a short, plethoric little man, in a blue uniform and round hat "And who are you?"
A detachment of pontoon-soldiers, in the uniform of artillerymen, is encamped upon this bank, and the soldiers seated in a row on a long beam watched the water flowing. In the floating establishment there was a boisterous and uproarious crowd.
"But the Emperor is too good. If he were not so good I would not have been in danger of drowning to-day; the sight of my uniform would have made that peasant tremble at the idea of telling me a lie." So spoke Zimmer, and all this yet remains in my memory. It happened August 12, 1813. Returning to Leipzig, we saw joy painted on the countenances of the inhabitants.
Thus, then, before having received on this point the testimony of experience, reason suffices to assure us that we shall find the real and consequently limited man in a state of tension or relaxation, according as the exclusive activity of isolated forces troubles the harmony of his being, or as the unity of his nature is based on the uniform relaxation of his physical and spiritual forces.
If I should go to her to-morrow, even in a private's uniform, she would give me her hand cordially, but she compares me with hundreds of thousands who seem braver men than I. It is useless for me to suggest that I am doing more than those who go to fight.
I replied with a quivering lip, that "I had had no time to order another uniform" and I burst into tears. "Indeed, Burrows, you are rather too harsh," said the third captain; "the lad is frightened. Let him sit down and compose himself for a little while. Sit down, Mr Simple, and we will try you again directly." I sat down, checking my grief and trying to recall my scattered senses.
Dermot and Muriel and was sitting on the verandah of the Political Officer's house with them after dinner. He was wearing white mess uniform.
"What matters about his uniform, O'Grady?" the others exclaimed. "What we want to know is how he saved his life at Corunna, when we all thought that he was either killed or taken prisoner." "Wait till the lad has got something to eat and drink," the colonel said, peremptorily. "Pray take your seats, gentlemen.
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