...surely the link could not have been with Churchill the brilliant, gallant and steadfast wartime leader who, by dint of character, will and language, turned near defeat into victory.

The grand parades have passed away with all their unsightly accompaniments of be-whiskered, be-spurred, and be-plumed officers, and of scare-crow, be-baggonnetted, be-broomsticked and undisciplined soldiers.

Son and father reached the mouth of the canyon and were leading their mounts on foot up a screed hill face that looked down on the tracks.

In theory, there could be two ways of working a coherent, connected, systematic account of a person — the chronological, which proceeds backward (so to speak) from the beginning to the end and the antichronological, which proceeds from the end to the beginning.