"Blustering hadn't helped me, and a look at Rudi's mocking face told me that whining wouldn't either. Robbed of the tw…"

"But strangely enough, I became a little closer to de Gautet, for I discovered that he shared one of my chief interest…"

""D—n your lousy eyes!" cries he [Captain Spring], "Take that infernal Dago duster out of my sight — would you bury an…"

"I took up with Speed and the greenhorn, who was now waxing voluble in the grip of booze, and off we went. [W]e stoppe…"

"“They are ship’s biscuits – what should we need those for?” “Insurance, my lad”, says I. “Take ‘em along, and it’s od…"

"Oh, he [Raglan] was brave and determined and ready to take on all odds – the worst kind of general imaginable. Give m…"

"Well, if I was in disgrace, I was also in good health, and that's what matters. ... The Russian wounded lay in piles …"

"He (Scud East) hadn't got Valla to refresh him, either, which might have had a calming effect. I thought of suggestin…"

"We took a stroll the first afternoon, in the direction of Balmoral, and on the road encountered what seemed to be a f…"

"It’s a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."