“Get out of here, you freak show,” Emmy said.

Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.

The foist thing I’m gonna do when this mess is over is to find me a pretty strumpet in Paris and stay in bed for a Goddamn week!

The construction of advanced batteries mirrored that of those built along the line of circumvallation. … Although Mahan demanded that batteries be constructed to exacting dimensions and revetted with gabions, fascines, and sandbags, at Vicksburg the resources at hand determined what materials soldiers used to build what they termed artillery forts.