The events of these sieges show that a bold and vigorous sortie in force might carry destruction through every part of a besieger's approaches, where the guard is injudiciously disposed and ill commanded; but that if due precautions have been observed in forming the approaches and posting the defenders, any sortie from a besieged place must be checked with loss in their advance, when the approaches are still distant; or when the approaches are near, should a sortie succeed in pushing into them by a sudden rush, the assailants must inevitably be driven out again in a moment, with terrible slaughter.

Chief Seathl looked to the future in a semipositive way, saying, We aren't going to forget who we are. . .

Since the proof of Hartogs' Theorem does not appeal to the Axiom of Choice, the Hartogs number of a set X exists whether or not X has a well-ordering.

I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.