resting-ground

Updated: June 7, 2025

In addition to this, our commanders had to find the battalion a resting-ground easy to defend and of merit as a tactical position. At ten o'clock we lay down, battalion after battalion, just as we halted: equipment on, our packs unloosened but shoved up under our heads, and our rifles by our sides, muzzles towards the enemy.

Patrick MacGill - The Amateur Army

I try to refute the two propositions which it has put forth as solid resting-ground for woman's claim to the elective franchise in this land "Taxation without representation is tyranny," and "There is no just government without the consent of the governed."

Helen Kendrick Johnson - Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates