"Most of England's wit and manhood scintillated in the sunlight, while British matrons and England's fairest maids lit…"

"One of the charms of Africa, is the long settled periods of pure unclouded sky, in which the sun rises and sets with …"

"Everything had been new and strange : the lean and ragged foot-soldiers who marched alongside of us, toughened, stain…"

"An artillery man is not made in a month, nor an officer in a year; and unless we had had educated men as keen as must…"

"First let us rid our minds of the fallacy that guerrilla war is a wholly distinct thing in kind from regular war. It …"

"The cavalryman, is for practical purposes a compound of three factors; man, horse and rifle. The lance should go alto…"

"Being shot with volcanic suddenness into the Navy at an hour's notice is a queer experience, but I am beginning to ge…"

"I do not know how I stand this parting from Molly, save that by a paradox we are so absoultely one that in the sense …"

"I leapt into my boots, trousers and jacket, tumbled all my gear, lying ready laid out, into my bag, donned helmet and…"

"...to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing..."