If there is no first, there can be no second or third.

I am entirely convinced by your argument that our army swallowed a river as it marched southward.
In fact, I have often felt so thirsty that I felt as if I could have swallowed it myself all alone." There was another roar of applause, and as a dozen cups filled with water were pushed at the general, he drank deeply and often, and then retired amid further applause.
"They'll fight well for him, to-morrow," said Dick.
"No doubt of it," said Warner.
They went into the edge of the wood and sought sleep and rest.

But there was much merry chatter first among these lads, for many of whom death had already spread its somber wings..