Good Heaven! Brighton, and a wholecampful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poorregiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!""Now I have got some news for you," said Lydia, as they sat down attable.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appearto be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyardmen.
Oh, quite enough to get, Sir, as the soldier said ven theyordered him three hundred and fifty lashes,' replied Sam.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'You must not tell us what the soldier, or any other man, said, Sir,'interposed the judge; 'it's not evidence.
The soldiertold the man, of that he could not come inside; and the man answered,smiling: course, 'What is inside and what is outside?' The soldier wasstill staring scornfully through the iron grating when he graduallyrealized that, though neither he nor the gate had moved, he was actuallystanding in the street and looking in at the barrack yard, where thebeggar stood still and smiling and equally motionless.
Then, when thebeggar turned towards the building, the sentry awoke to such sense as hehad left, and shouted a warning to all the soldiers within the gatedenclosure to hold the prisoner fast.
Then the beggar said in his silveryvoice: 'What is outside and what is inside?' And the soldier, stillglaring through the same bars, saw that they were once more between himand the street, where the beggar stood free and smiling with a paper inhis hand.
In the twentieth century----"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) He was almost choked with his own protest, and then, after a silence,the old soldier said:"Well, I don't profess to know much about those things, but I thinkthese religious people need to study a text which says: 'Let the deadbury their dead.