[Appar from Fr lier, from L ligāre to bind]
Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!
Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
They were ordered to the field, and their places filled by the Georgia Reserves, an organization of boys under, and men over the military age. As General Grant aptly-phrased it, They had robbed the cradle and the grave, in forming these regiments.
Reserves,
They had robbed the cradle and the grave,
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