Those detonations, less extensive, less undulating, less connected than those of thunder, gave rise in my mind to the idea of a battle.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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