Now, if, for reasons of internal organisation or what not, you desired to keep your vanguard still your vanguard in retreat, as it was on the field, your middle body still your middle body on the march, and what was your rearguard on the field still your rearguard in the long column whereby you would leave that field, the manœuvre by which you would maintain this order would be filing off by the left; that is, ordering A to form fours and turn from a line into a column, facing towards the point E, and, having done so, to march off in the direction of X. You would order B to act in the same fashion next. — from Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
My eyes on this volume I cast, I read of engagements to be, Of dances and fêtes of the past, I learn with the deepest regret That the Duke of X. Y. is unwell, And with pleasure I glow that the Marquis of O. Has dined with the Duchess of L.! — from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 23rd, 1893 by Various
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