times-that

Updated: May 19, 2025

I believe any writer, any acknowledged writer of talent, will bear me out, more or less. It is the old idea of inspiration one cannot express it better a breathing into. It is exactly that. The man of genius, in any form, feels at times-that is to say, when his fit is on, that there is a breathing into his brain.

Victoria Cross - To-morrow?

But inside of twenty yards, whether the rhinoceros meant to charge me, or was merely running blindly by, did not particularly matter. Even in the latter case he might happen to catch sight of me and change his mind. Thus, looking over my notebook records, I find that I was "charged" forty odd times-that is to say, the rhinoceros rushed in my general direction.

Stewart Edward White - The Land of Footprints