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The terrible rumble, grumble and roar
Telling the battle was on once more—
And Sheridan twenty miles away!
--
Sheridan’s Ride.

 

Thomas Buchanan Read

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My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

 

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The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.

 

Ray Bradbury

 

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“Mustn’t grumble” was the most English of expressions. English patience was mingled inertia and despair. What was the use? But Americans did nothing but grumble! Americans also boasted. "I do some pretty incredible things” was not an English expression. "I’m fairly keen" was not American. Americans were showoffs — it was part of our innocence — we often fell on our faces; the English seldom showed off, so they seldom looked like fools.

 

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