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...han it experienced; it was steadily beating the spirit out of the Ger- man army and shoving it back towards Germany. Only peace can, I believe, preven... ... And upon the roads and beside them was the enormous equipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, ... ...y. From the left wing on the Isonzo along the Alpine boundary round to the Swiss boundary there is mountain warfare like nothing else in the world; it... ...s extraordinarily unlike that upon any other front. From the Isonzo to the Swiss frontier we are dealing with high mountains, cut by deep valleys be- ... ...ino offensive, which exhausted Austria, wasted the flower of the Hungarian army and led directly to the Galician disasters and the intervention of Rum... ...n the field from the passing of the Roman legions to the appearance of the Swiss footmen. he makes it very clear that he considers the fighting of the... ...onal fighting has be- come “scrapping” again, an individual adventure with knife, 69 H G Wells club, bomb, revolver or bayonet. In this war we are wo... ...ies would be insane to leave the Hohenzollern at the end of the war with a knife in his hand, after the display he has made of his quality. To surren-... ...his hand, after the display he has made of his quality. To surren- der his knife means for the Hohenzollern the abandonment of his dreams, the repudia...

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...nders, were but the natural participators. They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly be... ...y, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible—an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors,... ... into which he was heedlessly running, saved the rem- nants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation earned ... ...anned him, in unconcealed amazement. The native bore both the tomahawk and knife of his tribe; and yet his appearance was not altogether that of a war... ... his crown, and depended over the left shoulder. A tomahawk and scalp- ing knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle; while a short military r... ...nd a summer cap of skins which had been shorn of their fur. He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty gar- ments... ...und it, and in artificial accessories, it is inferior to the finest of the Swiss and Italian lakes, while in outline and purity of water it is fully t...

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...ovince, and one dinner at the house of a cornet of the Guards. He took his army to the priest’s, where they devoured as much provision as would have l... ...aw you lying bleeding, wounded.” “In the left side, was it not, and with a knife?” interrupted Buckingham. “Yes, it was so, my Lord, it was so—in the ... ...ckingham. “Yes, it was so, my Lord, it was so—in the left side, and with a knife. Who can possibly have told you I had had that 130 The Three Muskete... ...- contestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution. The army, I will answer for it, will be but little pleased at being exposed to ... ... We will arm our four lackeys with pistols and musketoons; if they send an army out against us, we will give battle, and the survi- vor, as D’Artagnan... .... At three o’clock came two companies of the Guards, one French, the other Swiss. The company of French guards was composed of half of M. Duhallier’s ... ...re, they had scarcely seen each other for a moment at the apartment of the Swiss guard, Germain, whither D’Artagnan had sent for her. The haste which ... ...ked soldiers, and they require many things useless to the Guardsmen or the Swiss.” “But yet, detail them to me.” “Why, they may amount to—”, said Port... ...have the same chance as the emperor?” “Your Eminence means, I presume, the knife stab in the Rue de la Feronnerie?” “Precisely,” said the cardinal. “D...

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...ntly he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, a... ...Presently another open carriage brought the Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet ... ...g! It was just the time for a tramp through the woods and mountains. We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks... ...footpath animated by travelers.” “A learned man in a cynical and torn dress holding an open book in his hand.” “St. Bartholomew and the Executioner wi... ... across a living ant that seemed to have any more sense than a dead one. I refer to the ordinary ant, of course; I have had no experience of those won... ...a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great deal of romantic nonsense has been written abo... ...piece of exaggeration is that about the “scarcity” of the chamois. It is the reverse of scarce. Droves of one hundred million chamois are not unusual ... ... fall on each side desperately steep, but the ice in some of these intervals between the masses of rock assumed the form of a mere sharp edge, almost ... ...uch a thing could manage to conceal itself in open ground where there was nothing left for it to hide behind. When one is reading in bed, and lays his...

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...asures of the legate were well taken. When the dessert was on the board, a Swiss presented himself, with the an nouncement that a strange ambassador ... ...ption of dead bodies. Among the troops in the town, there are usually some Swiss: more or less. When any of these die, they are buried out of a fund m... ...over which my popular at tendant presided as before: carving with a clasp knife, his own personal property, something smaller than a Roman sword. The... ...ine, the metal covered, red, green, yel low, domes and church spires of a Swiss town. The business of these recollections being with Italy, and my bu... ...al clock in motion, strik ing twelve. How, when it struck twelve, a whole army of puppets went through many ingenious evolutions; and, among them, a ... ...pon the green carpet itself, and gathered round the al tar, was a perfect army of cardinals and priests, in red, gold, purple, violet, white, and fin... ...rhaps: with a tall, gallows shaped frame rising above it, in which was the knife, charged with a ponderous mass of iron, all ready to descend, and gli... ...ge for themselves among the people, and stood on tiptoe for a sight of the knife: then went away. Artists, in inconceivable hats of the middle ages, a...

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...ow. Monte Boscero is un- veiled; the semicircle of the Piedmontese and the Swiss peaks, covering Lake Orta, behind, on along the Ticinese and the Gris... ...po was seen struggling to secure the arms of a man in a high-crowned green Swiss hat, who was apparently disposed to give the signorina’s faithful ser... ...nnot trust him. I do not. But, if we make such a tide in Lombardy that his army must be drawn into it, is such an army to be refused? First, the tide,... ...t will not accept it for its loath- someness. There were Englishmen in the army of Austria. Could one of them be this one whom she had cared for when ... ...ny kind. One sharp scar, which he called his shoulder knot, he owed to the knife of a friend, by name Sarpo, who had things ready to betray him, and s... ...ous Sardinian monarch with such assurances of devotion, that a Piedmontese army would be at the gates when the banner of Austria was in the dust. Amon... ...re you—what are you, my fine fellow?’ Barto groaned louder, and replied in Swiss-French from a smothering depth: ‘A poor man, and the gracious lady’s ... ...Illustrious signore” me, sir, either in my hearing or out of it. Leave the knife sticking.’ The innkeeper sidled out with a dumb salute. ‘I can count ... ... betray the Saints for a handful of florins.’ He dressed, and wrenched his knife from the door. Hear- ing the clatter of a horse at the porch, he stop...

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... to Sedan, on Tuesday last, the 28th of the month; reviewed that so-called Army left forlorn there by Lafayette: the forlorn soldiers gloomed on him; ... ...a, that made War be declared.” (Dumouriez, Memoires, ii. 383.) Unpromising Army! Recruits flow in, filtering through Depot after De- pot; but recruits... ...o purpose. The Municipals have, by law, the power of ordering it;— with an Army officered by Royalism or Crypto-Royalism, such a Law seemed needful: a... ...nt Regiment du Roi in mutiny; but the bravest heart may quail at this. The Swiss Prisoners, remnants of the Tenth of August, ‘clasped each other spas-... ...ey, with a torch, lighted them; he pointed to the bed of the unfortu- nate Swiss, Reding. Reding spoke with a dying voice. One of them paused; but the... ...ional convention, are hovering and gathering about the Hall of the Hundred Swiss; with intent to constitute themselves! On the morrow, about noontide,... ...to home. About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal; then straightway, in the Place des Victoires, ta... ...turning aside in the bath: Petion, and Louvet, and—Charlotte has drawn her knife from the sheath; plunges it, with one sure stroke, into the writer’s ... ...rs the cutler of the Palais Royal will testify that he sold her the sheath-knife; “all these details are needless,” interrupted Charlotte; “it is I th...

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... certain style of youth. Philippe thought he had the same vocation for the army that his brother Jo- 29 Balzac seph showed for art. Without his mothe... ...tution, and wish to be one of your soldiers. I ask you to let me enter the army, etc. Within twenty-four hours, the Emperor had sent Philippe to the I... ...e happened to be near Marshal Davoust at Saint-Denis, and was not with the army of the Loire. In consequence of this, and through Davoust’s intercessi... ...ed by Elie Magus, the picture-dealer. The original be- longed to a wealthy Swiss banker, who had only lent it for ten days, and the next day was the l... ...A “you,” cold and sharp and ironically respectful, cut like the blade of a knife through the heart of the miserable old bachelor. The “you” was a decl... ...enier into the Grande rue, Fario, who stood ambushed in a recess, struck a knife at his heart, drew out the blade, and escaped by the moat towards Vil... ...he blade, and escaped by the moat towards Vilatte, wiping the blade of his knife on his handkerchief. The Spaniard washed the handkerchief in the Rivi...

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...ir shoulders; plasterers, spotted with lime from head to foot. This little army of workers, tramping steadily in one di- rection, met and mingled with... ...d like to know, without being run down—what?’ I say it’s outrageous. I’d a knifed him in another minute. It was an outrage. I say it was an outrage.” ... ... pink face and wonderful hair, absolutely white. The Sieppes were a German-Swiss family. “We go to der park, Schuetzen Park, mit alle dem childern, a ... ...eppe was en- tranced. Instantly she remembered her girlhood and her native Swiss village. “Ach, dot is heavunly; joost like der old country. Mein gran... ...n’t know. How much? How much?” “Five thousand dollars.” It was as though a knife had been run through the Jew; a spasm of an almost physical pain twis... ... The handles of the knives, now, were they gold, too? All the 90 McTeague knife was made from one piece of gold, was it? And the forks the same? The ... ... for Uncle Oelbermann’s store. Trina’s ancestors on both sides were German-Swiss, and some long-forgotten forefather of the sixteenth century, some wo... ...ating for the first time into the Dark Continent, not Napoleon leading his army across the Alps, was more weighted with responsibility, more burdened ... ...taking was insisted upon with scrupulous iteration. It was a manoeuvre, an army changing its base of operations, a veritable tribal migration. On the ...

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...arked. He dared to claim the countenance of the Commander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters migh... ...hich is familiar with the tricks and frailties of the infants; and it is a knife to probe the male, while seemingly it does the part of the napkin—pit... ...protect the girl. “Your name is Weyburn; your father was an officer in the army, killed on the battle-field, Arthur Abner tells me,” was her somewhat ... ...d you not enter the service?” “Want of an income, my lady.” “Bad look-out. Army or Navy for gentlemen, if they stick to the school of honour. The sede... ...re others besides?” “Besides Emile, there is a German and an Italian and a Swiss.” “It is a Company?” “A Company of schoolmasters! Companies of all ki... ...omes is near the end. It won’t be later than September that I shall go. My Swiss friend has the school, and would take me at once before he retires.’ ... ...e true,—Adder, the dear good fellow, has none. Or where should we be? On a Swiss Alp, in a chalet, he shooting chamois, and I milking cows, with ‘ah-a... ... her when she snubbed the secretary. So she complimented his trencherman’s knife, of which the remarkably fine edge was proof enough that he had come ... ...t to the quick.’ ‘We ‘re cut! Your quick, Charlotte, is known to court the knife.’ Letters of the morning’s post were brought in. The earl turned over...

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...is no great feat for a naive imagination to suppose the Presi- dent of the Swiss Confederation or the President of the United States—for each of these... ...ng, the Allies as contem- porary soldiers. They were going to fight a 1900 army with a 1914 army, and their whole opening scheme was based on the conv... ...that seem to form the chief reading of our military experts, said that the army that entrenches is a defeated army. The silly dictum was repeated and ... ...against science, discipline, and priggishly keeping fit enough to join the army, as very good fun indeed, good matter for some jolly reeling ballad ab... ... in which one might remove that legitimate and peaceful implement, a bread knife, from the hand of a homicidal maniac. Let but Germany cure herself of... ... Central belt of Europe. To the liberal idealist the thought of a possible Swiss sys- tem or group of Swiss systems comes readily to mind. One thinks ... ...n a German republic. That is by no means conclusively true. The nucleus of Swiss freedom was the German-speaking can- tons about the Lake of Lucerne; ...

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...upon the people of his suite, so that all, pages, offic- ers, and equerries, quitted the service, knives and goblets, and made towards the second cham... ...bord to seek for game, to the fisheries of Beuvion for fish, and to the gardens of Chaverny for fruits and flowers. Precious tapestries, and lusters w... ..., I could not leave one city, or go into another, without passing under some fragments of a body which had acted, fought, and breathed for me. “By a b... ...d.” Whilst looking round them, Athos and Monk perceived a little ash of about three inches in diameter, which had shot up in an angle of the wall, rea... ...-owner, only he could not help regretting, more than once, the absence of the lively humor and amusing sallies of the cheerful com- panion of former d... ...d he, and he spread upon the floor a large cover, and emptied the first bag into it. Planchet did the same with the second; then D’Artagnan, all in a ... ...ur le cardinal the idea of an economy which puts three hundred thousand francs a year into your majesty’s coffers.” “What economy was that, monsieur?”... ...tion of each, and the curiosity of all. Towards evening he ordered the doors of the Louvre to be closed, with the exception of one only, which opened ... ... ours, and she has, for mother-in-law, Madame Anne of Austria. I know something of the Spaniards of the house of Austria.” “And next?” “Well, after ha...

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...day. He has been attached to every conceivable pursuit. He has been in the army, in the navy, in the church, in the law; connected with the press, the... ...at comes along; and why does this thing stalk into my mind on the top of a Swiss mountain! It is a figure that I once saw, just after dark, chalked up... ...igh sun burnt forehead, has the air of one who has been a Sergeant in the army—he might have sat to Wilkie for the Soldier in the Reading of the Will... ...tealing way, getting acceptances from young men of good connexions (in the army chiefly), on pretence of discount, and bolting with the same. ‘Mesheck... ...lear place for me. I got under the sofa, lay down on my chest, took out my knife, and made a convenient hole in the chintz to look through. It was the... ...stantive! Give me, says Bark, my adjective trousers! I’ll put an adjective knife in the whole bileing of ‘em. I’ll punch their adjective heads. I’ll r... ...other—a heavy young man, with a large double cased silver watch, and a fat knife the handle of which was a per fect tool box—who unaccountably appear... ...chalets, mountain torrents, wooden bridges, every con ceivable picture of Swiss scenery! The whole village turned out to receive our bore. The peasan... ...our last visit was your twenty third), you will go to that valley, and see Swiss scenery for the first time. And if you want really to know the pastor...

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.... This was seldom done by violence, but by giv- ing them employment in the Army and Court, attaching them to the person of the King, and giving them o... ...ments made in his name became void. Conde went of to Guienne and raised an army; Mazirin returned to the Queen; Paris shut its gates and declared Maza... ...fraid of his own appanage, the city of Orleans, being occu- pied by either army, Gaston sent his daughter to take the charge of it, as she effectually... ...demoiselle was still at her toilette, and up we all went, through ranks of Swiss and lackeys, to her apart- ments, to a splendid dressing-room, where ... ...eagerly and bravely the once timid man finally held out his throat for the knife. It might be taken as the very highest witness to the manner in which... ...spital, and called him by name. ‘Jean Marie, my good friend, have you your knife to cut these cords and show there is nothing inside?’ The man’s hones... ...oreign traitors.’ He ranged himself beside Clement Darpent, offering a big knife, wherewith in a moment the bands were cut and the mattress help up to... ...ected from her enterprise. We had only two of- ficers, six guards, and six Swiss to escort us; but Mademoi- selle was always popular, and we were quit...

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...r a Scriptural use of the remains of the Noah’s Ark mixed up with a wooden Swiss dairy farm. But she re- ally did not know whether a thing was a churc... ...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ...e disturbing and illuminating events was that I was robbed of a new pocket-knife and the other that I fell in love. It was altogether surprising to me... ...likely to meet robber or tiger face to face seemed equally impossible. The knife as I remember it was a particularly jolly one with all sorts of instr... ...direction. “Lost anythink, Matey?” said he. I explained. “‘E’s dropped ‘is knife,” said my interlocutor, and joined in the search. “What sort of ‘andl... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... .... But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it some of these days.” He referred to the organis... ...al visage. I didn’t, I remember, like the contrast of him with the drilled Swiss and Germans about us. Convict coloured stockings and vast hobnail boo... ...askew. He did not want to shave in the train, but I made him at one of the Swiss stations—I dislike these Oxford slovenlinesses—and then confound him!...

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... derers made their way by the bank of an artificial stream and came to the Swiss valley, where stands a chalet that had more than once given shelter t... ...surgents, and was rewarded by the nomination to the rank of captain in the army of Sambre-et- Meuse, where he distinguished himself so far as to rise ... ...es, he could have found no justification; his wife, backed by a formidable army of dowagers, would have had him condemned by the whole world. Thus Gra... ...perhaps!” cried the doctor. “It is a positive invitation to the assassin’s knife.” “I am not afraid of that,” said Granville, with melancholy indiffer...

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...und to submit to immigration any more than to inva- sion; each is war to the knife, and resistance to either but legitimate defence. Yet we may regret... ...: a road conceived for pageantry and for triumphal marches, an avenue for an army; but, its days of glory over, it now lies grilling in the sun betwee... ...by the highroad, he had built himself a little cabin after the manner of the Swiss Family Robinson; thither he mounted at night, by the romantic aid o... ...t have seen a single penny pickwick, honestly shared in lengths with a blunt knife, bestrew the glen with these apprentices. Again, you might join our... ...hey have been to sea, they have hated, they have feared, they have longed to knife a man, and maybe done it; the wild taste of life has stung their pa... ...eath and decency that, for long months together, bedevil’ d and inspired the army; was hurled to and fro in the battle-smoke of the assault; was there... ...aggered. And of all this he had no more to say than “hot work, sir,” or “the army suffered a great deal, sir,” or “I be- lieve General Wilson, sir, wa...

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...he battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack on Sir John Cope’s army, a battery of four field-pieces was stormed and carried by the Cameron... ...hile the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his la... ...on; but the young officer, immediately after this transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professi... ...res and perpendicular rigidity of stature, he bore some re- semblance to a Swiss officer of the guards, who had resided some time at Paris, and caught... ...ouse of Bradwardine, when there was an egg between them for a flint, and a knife for a sword. And he expects you will also say, you are sorry for the ... ... by occasionally scratching Latin proverbs and texts of Scripture with his knife on the roof and walls of his fortalice, which were of sand- stone. As... ... Veolan. The goose was smoking on the table, and the Bailie brandished his knife and fork. A joyous greeting took place between him and his patron. Th...

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...nt about its busi- 30 The World Set Free ness—as the inhabitants of those Swiss villages which live under the perpetual threat of overhanging rocks a... ...of soldiering, first as an officer in the English infantry and then in the army of pacification. His book tells all these things so simply and at the ... ...as supposed to fight on foot with a rifle and be the main por- tion of the army. There were cavalry forces (horse soldiers), having a ratio to the inf... ...riggs, and that very able King’s Counsel, Philbrick, had reconstructed the army frequently and thoroughly and placed it at last, with the adop- tion o... ... exercise, but I doubt if I am sufficiently a barbarian to stick this long knife into any- thing living. Anyhow in this battle I shouldn’t have had a ... ... for brilliance with the motor bicycles, aeroplanes, and ski-men among the Swiss mountains, and a sudden swoop upon Vienna; the thing was to listen—an... ... have nearly forgot- ten Marcus Karenin. Marcus Karenin must go under your knife to-morrow, Fowler, and very probably Marcus Karenin will die.’ He rai...

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...d equipment, but it was an enormous pro- portion. Great Britain spent upon army and navy money and capacity, that directed into the channels of physic... ...nk refusal to marry her. Then followed his marriage with Gretchen Krass, a Swiss girl of peerless beauty. Then came the gallant rescue, which almost c... ...women, had been caught in the destruction of the Post-Office, and a little army of volunteers with white badges entered behind the firemen, bringing o... ...ave been pretty desperate if they meant it. They slashed down on us like a knife; simply ripped the af- ter gas-chambers like gutting herrings, crumpl... ... Britain and France and Italy had declared war upon Ger- many and outraged Swiss neutrality; India, at the sight of Asiatic airships, had broken into ... ...vigables in their flank raid upon the Franconian Park were assailed by the Swiss experimental squadron, sup- ported as the day wore on by German airsh... ...vagely resolved to exterminate their enemies, and a continually reinforced army of invasion from Asia quartered upon the Pacific slope and supported b... ...led round it once or twice, and then attacked the shutters with his pocket-knife, reinforced presently by a wooden stake he found conveniently near. A... ...nation, dry and humorous in their manner, addicted to the use of the bowie-knife and revolver, and in the habit of talking through the nose like Norfo...