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"They were without water for all that time and in August?" cried Shere Ali. "No," the Doctor answered. "But they would have been had the Sepoy not found his equal. A bheestie" and he nodded his head to emphasise the word "not a soldier at all, but a mere water-carrier, a mere camp-follower, volunteered to go down to the river.
How dare you not shoulder your glorious burden with patience, fortitude, and determination? Do not be as if you were to enlist as a soldier, and end as a camp-follower. I am told that the leader of the American bar has a standing order with his booksellers to send him every new book of approved merit in all the departments of literature.
We watched as the commissariat wagons carrying food to these men passed us by, the hospital stores passed us by, the transport carts passed us by, the coolies with reserve mounts, the last wounded soldier, straggler, and camp-follower passed us by.
Leaena was hardly less versed in the combats of Mars than in those of Venus, having, in fact, commenced her distinguished career as a camp-follower of the Emperor Gordian. A tremendous stroke caught him on the hand; his blade dropped to the earth; why did not the fingers follow?
He fell over a sleeping sergeant, and said to him hastily, "Steady, man a friend!" as the half-roused soldier clutched his rifle. Then he found a lieutenant, and shook him in vain; further on a captain, and exchanged saddening murmurs with him; further still a camp-follower of African extraction, and blasphemed him.
I'm only a spectator and camp-follower. It's your business. You'll find me in my study." And putting the poker carefully in its place, Clowes left the room. He went into his study, and tried to begin some work. But the beauties of the second book of Thucydides failed to appeal to him. His mind was elsewhere. He felt too excited with what had just happened to translate Greek.
He came out of that flushed and capable region known as the "North." He called himself a "promoter"; his enemies had spoken of him as a "grafter"; Okochee took a middle course, and held him to be no better nor no worse than a "Yank." Far up the lake eighteen miles above the town the eye of this cheerful camp-follower of booms had spied out a graft.
Burton millions were melting like hailstones falling on hot metal, and when the session ended Len Haswell turned away with an empty face. For two days he had almost forgotten, in his battle-lust, his own heart-ache. Now it was over and because he had followed Hamilton Burton with his own small fortunes as a camp-follower trails an army corps, he knew that he was wiped out and ruined.
We know every man in this county knows that Lige Bemis was a horse thief before the war, and that he was a cattle thief and a camp-follower during the war; and after the war we know what he was he and the woman he took up with.
Jane Selden looked at him thoughtfully, her hands clasped upon her key-basket. "I'm only an old woman just a camp-follower with an interest in the battle. I wish that you had had a friend of your own age a man, and your equal in power and grasp. Gaudylock and Mocket and such they're well enough, but you're high above them, you're a sort of Emperor to them.
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