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... seen how soon a better class of men will seek admission into the ranks ; or , when they have served out one limited term , delight to enter for another in a service which respects their best birthright , and seeks the extension only at ...
... seen how soon a better class of men will seek admission into the ranks ; or , when they have served out one limited term , delight to enter for another in a service which respects their best birthright , and seeks the extension only at ...
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... seen something like it in the canine race - rarely in the human . While a regimental surgeon I lived among common soldiers , and can vouch that I have never in any walk of life fallen in with better men : they certainly could not be ...
... seen something like it in the canine race - rarely in the human . While a regimental surgeon I lived among common soldiers , and can vouch that I have never in any walk of life fallen in with better men : they certainly could not be ...
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... seen , except officers , as we believed , occasionally directing by signals , or riflemen flitting like imps from amidst the sand hillocks from cover to cover , in order to gain a nearer position . The day was spent in this cruel ...
... seen , except officers , as we believed , occasionally directing by signals , or riflemen flitting like imps from amidst the sand hillocks from cover to cover , in order to gain a nearer position . The day was spent in this cruel ...
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... seen . The enemy , for a moment , seemed puzzled ( for the firing did not increase ) at the strange performance that was being enacted before them ; but indecision was none of their habits . They rose from their cover with loud cries ...
... seen . The enemy , for a moment , seemed puzzled ( for the firing did not increase ) at the strange performance that was being enacted before them ; but indecision was none of their habits . They rose from their cover with loud cries ...
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... seen from the joy and animation that ever pervades our light infantry com- panies when ordered out to skirmish . The soldier then , who before stood a machine , feels at once that he has been elevated into a man - an intellectual ...
... seen from the joy and animation that ever pervades our light infantry com- panies when ordered out to skirmish . The soldier then , who before stood a machine , feels at once that he has been elevated into a man - an intellectual ...
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