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"What an awful disease!" exclaimed one of the listeners. "You may well call it an awful disease," returned the doctor, who, under the influence of a few glasses of wine, was more inclined to talk than usual. "It has been named the mother of diseases. Its death-roll far outnumbers that of any other.
Thomas has got back into the defences of Nashville, with Hood close upon him. Decatur has been abandoned, and so have all the roads except the main one leading to Chattanooga. Part of this falling back was undoubtedly necessary and all of it may have been. It did not look so, however, to me. In my opinion, Thomas far outnumbers Hood in infantry.
They lack the high mental development of the yellow man as expressed in the Japanese, but even brute force is not to be despised, especially where it outnumbers the whites to the extent that they do in South Africa. I am no alarmist and I do not presume to say that there will be serious trouble.
Harris dropped his pencil and got ready the automatic gun, but it was not needed, for, after approaching as though about to attack, the Huns suddenly veered off. Later the reason for this became known. A squadron of French planes had arisen as swiftly to give battle, and however brave the Hun may be when he outnumbers the enemy, he had yet to be known to take on a combat against odds.
He was told that the army, as a whole, had about twenty-four thousand men in its ranks. "Phew, that outnumbers our army considerably!" thought Dick. "Well, no matter, when it comes to battle, I'll wager that we will give the redcoats all they can do."
D'Estrees outnumbers him; D'Estrees, too, is something of a soldier, a very considerable advantage in affairs of war. If he do It is well known how Royal Highness fared when he did, and what a Campaign Royal Highness made of it this Year 1757!
Now I must wait, nor dare to strike a blow, while my whole soul yearns for the fight, and I long either to lead my troops to victory or perish on the field of battle." "And yet, sire, it is fortunate that you have been forced to inactivity. To us time is every thing, for Frederick's army outnumbers ours.
Besides, not counting the Chink, who don't count we outnumbers him two to one. "'We don't go, I says, 'until we gets a bite. "'Oh! I'll see that you get a bite, he says. 'Sato, he says, calling off-stage, 'kindly unchain Ophelia and Ralph Waldo. Ophelia, he says, turning to us, 'is a lady Great Dane, standing four feet high at the shoulder and very morose in disposition.
In this case, where one so greatly outnumbers the other, it might be thought that the rarer species is dying out, or that, on the contrary, it is a new-comer destined to supplant the older more numerous species.
His regular Cavalry, 8,600, outnumbers twice or more that of the Prussians, not to mention their quality; and he has fewer Infantry, somewhat in proportion; the entire force on each side is scarcely above 20,000, the Prussians slightly in majority by count. The Prussians, though so ready for deploying, have had their own difficulties and delays.
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