That's the worst trouble with the soldiers in the trenches — nothing to do. It gives them the cafards, the black butterflies, the blue devils, the jimjams, the hump.

He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades.

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.

To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.