| James Stevenson - 1999 - 284 Seiten
...translating something from another of the many English quotations that she had learned in childhood: 'He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day; but he who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.' The farmer shrugged. 'The war has been... | |
| George Wilson Booth - 2000 - 204 Seiten
...expert. In fact, the presentation of these pages is a forcible exemplification of the poetic truth that "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day." Colonel Elzey had very much resented the command of the brigade passing to General Smith, and, on the... | |
| Anand Prahlad - 2001 - 332 Seiten
...away live to fight another day. Annot: MKH 2o7; OX 2oo-2o1, 256; AP 74; BR 74; NC 4o7; WH 222:F1oo, "He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day"; TW 132. Ole fire stick easy to catch. Prfrmr: The Itals, "Easy to Catch," Easy to Catch Prfrmr: Chin.... | |
| Brian Leonard Mott - 2003 - 259 Seiten
...Exercise 2. Sort the words in the following proverb into word-forms and wordexpressions (lexemes): He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. Exercise 3. From your English vocabulary, give a couple of examples of tokens of the same type which... | |
| Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin - 2003 - 416 Seiten
...crew, I would choose the last option. There is an ancient saying in the literature of Old Earth: 'For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; but he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.' " Jerdahn and Oratok exchanged glances... | |
| Jeffrey Brace - 2005 - 266 Seiten
...their motion; on discovering their superior force, we fired upon them and ran off fully believing, That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day — We concealed ourselves behind a stone wall for some minutes, they lost sight of us, but continued... | |
| Randy Bishop - 2007 - 401 Seiten
...number of the 13th Alabama made their escape as we fell back to the Run by remembering the old adage: 'He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.' Those who escaped were mostly from the left of the regiment and near the woods, occupied by the Tennesseans,... | |
| William C. Wilson, Christopher M. Grande, David B. Hoyt - 2007 - 912 Seiten
...Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA INTRODUCTION For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. —Oliver Goldsmith, 1761 Kf* The term... | |
| Paul Varnes - 2007 - 298 Seiten
...killed as they do at killing people. They do as my favorite poem by Goldsmith that Ma always read says, 'He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he who is in the battle slain, can never rise and fight again.' " That was something Ma read to... | |
| Stephen Brennan - 2007 - 808 Seiten
...depended solely upon speed to overtake a fleeing ship or to escape a powerful adversary. Their motto, "He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day," was in reality the only literature the bold and adventurous pirate would comprehend or accept. Therefore,... | |
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