I'll wager there was not a man amongst them who did not feel that he had been led into a trap.

Mark you how the rogues wheeled and fled with one accord, as though it had been part of their daily drill!' 'The peasants stood to it like men,' I remarked.
'There is nothing like a tincture of Calvinism for stiffening a line of battle,' said Saxon.

'Look at the Swede when he is at home.

What more honest, simple-hearted fellow could you find, with no single soldierly virtue, save that he could put away more spruce beer than you would care to pay for.

Yet if you do but cram him with a few strong, homely texts, place a pike in his hand, and give him a Gustavus to lead him, there is no infantry in the world that can stand against him.