Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Quotes

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• He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the…
• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther…
• Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
• All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob…
• I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a…
• But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no…
• During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the…
• In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…
• It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it…
• The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and…
• There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the…

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