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Our army sword is the short, stiff, pointed gladius of the Romans; and the American bowie-knife is the same tool, modified to meet the daily wants of civil society. I announce at this table an axiom not to be found in Montesquieu or the journals of Congress: The race that shortens its weapons lengthens its boundaries. Corollary.
The Ursulines are not to be suppressed." "True," said some among the crowd; "why should they not work as well as we, or why do they not go among the Ursulines and make themselves useful?" And thus were the sympathies of the people withdrawn from the unhappy nuns. They, meanwhile, went their way, chanting as they walked: "Cujus animam gementem, contristanten et dolentem pertransivit gladius."
I have sent a set of the sails home, as they are beautifully cut and form a model for a fast-sailing boat. When a school of these are under sail together they are frequently mistaken for a school of native boats. The fish referred to is in all likelihood Histiophorus gladius, a species very closely related to, if not identical with, our own. The Cutlass-fish
At least I had a remarkably keen appreciation of the defeats in store for any man who aspired to experience with that marvel of the sea Xiphius gladius, the broadbill swordsman. On the first morning of my fourth summer, 1917, I was up at five. Fine, cool, fresh, soft dawn with a pale pink sunrise. Sea rippling with an easterly breeze. As the sun rose it grew bright and warm.
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