discoverability

Updated: May 20, 2025

The same is to be said of the French lines; but the in discoverability of the British Army is relatively much more striking, by reason of the greater richness and complexity of the British auxiliary services.

Arnold Bennett - Over There : War Scenes on the Western Front

I calculated that if the whole British Army passed before my eyes at the same brisk rate as that solitary and splendid brigade, I should have to stare at it night and day for about three weeks, without surcease for meals. This calculation only increased my astonishment at the obstinate in- discoverability of the Army. Once I did get the sensation of fighting men existing in bulk.

Arnold Bennett - Over There : War Scenes on the Western Front

At bottom still better, belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds! This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here. The Thibet priests have methods of their own of discovering what Man is Greatest, fit to be supreme over them.

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History