Do you know anything of him ?" "Not today, but he was alive yesterday.

Take the glasses now, John, will you, and be my eyes as you have been before.

One needs to watch the heavens all the time." John took Lannes' powerful glasses, and objects invisible before leaped into view.
"I see two or three rivers, a dozen villages, and troops," he said.

"The troops are to the west, and although they are this side of the Marne, I should judge that they are ours." "Ours undoubtedly," said Lannes, glancing the way John's glasses pointed.

"Not less than a hundred thousand of our men have crossed the Marne at that point, and more will soon be coming.