I should like to put all their heads into one noose, and I should feel no compunction in setting them swinging, for a greater set of rascals were never collected under the sun.

I must say that the contrast between our army and the Irish is very great, and that, although many bloody deeds are performed by the rapparees, there has never been a single complaint brought against the Irish troops.
"Anyhow, Mr.Davenant, I think you cannot do better than fall in with Colonel L'Estrange's plan.

There will be no difficulty in getting out, and, indeed, I will send a troop of cavalry to see you well beyond our lines." Walter spent the rest of the day with Colonel L'Estrange, and told him all that had taken place since they had last met.
"It is difficult to believe that it is but three years ago," he said, when he had finished.
"No, we judge the flight of time by the incidents we crowd into it.

The most uneventful days pass the most unheeded.

Now to me, it seems but yesterday that I stood on the deck of the ship, and knew that she was sure to go to pieces, and that the chance of anyone reaching that rocky coast alive were small, indeed; when I saw what seemed little more than a black speck approaching, and you and your fisher boy made your way over the wave.
"By the way, how is he?
Doing well, I hope ?" "He might have done well, if he liked.