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It would not only be possible, but certain that twenty of van Heerden's agents in America could destroy the harvests of the United States in a week." "But why should he do this he is a German, you say and Germans do not engage in frightfulness unless they see a dividend at the end of it." "There is a dividend a dividend of millions at the end of it," said Beale, graver, "that much I know.
Morgan captained the side, and was easily the best man in it, but among the lesser lights there was a great display of energy, much of it misplaced. The worst offender was Bray. To watch him play was to witness a gladiatorial display of frightfulness. His fists flew about like a flail, his legs were everywhere. On the whole he did more damage to his own side than to his opponents.
Those who feel syphilis to be an instrument adapted to warfare against sexual mistakes, and are prepared to concede "frightfulness" to be honorable warfare, will, of course, fold their hands and smugly roll their eyes as they repeat the words of the secretary of a London Lock hospital, "I don't believe in making it safe." Quoted by Flexner in "Prostitution in Europe."
He did not know that dye and coffee had run out so that the men could not dye their white haversacks. Somebody suggested to flag back, "send along some dye by wireless." Our men's haversacks, however, were dyed drab when we got them, so we were all right. A case of measles developed on board, suspected to be German, another case of German "frightfulness."
The Prussian mind, which is not remarkable for subtlety, found a justification in these three wars for its favourite doctrine of frightfulness. That doctrine, put briefly, is that people can always be frightened into submission, and that it is cheaper to frighten them than to fight them to the bitter end.
Life is the cheapest thing in Caspak, as it is the cheapest thing on earth and, doubtless, the cheapest cosmic production. No, I was not afraid to die; in fact, I prayed for death, that I might be relieved of the frightfulness of the interval of life which remained to me the waiting, the awful waiting, for that fearsome beast to reach me and to strike.
They were wary enough to guard their loop-hole for escape, but they found themselves outnumbered, and in turn had to fight for their own lives. The blazing huts lighted up the snow in a weird fashion; the shrieks and cries and jargon of the Iroquois added to the frightfulness. Yet the struggle was brief.
I ain't never needed any one since that to tell me what war is. The crowd was two thirds out before any one realized just what kind of frightfulness was going on. Then, amid shot and shell that would still fly from time to time, the bravest, that hadn't been able to fight their way out, stood by and picked up the wounded under fire and helped brush their clothes off.
Escape in any way was obviously out of the question. At last the raider got under way and began to bear down on us. Things began to look more ugly than ever, and most of us thought that the end had come, and that we were up against an apostle of the "sink the ships and leave no trace" theory which we had read about in Colombo only a couple of days before the latest development of "frightfulness."
It was dark too, and the wind was blowing fresh, which added to the frightfulness of the scene. A crowd of people stood about the gangway. Some of these people were passengers waiting to go down, and others, officers of the ship, to help them.
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