"Reveille" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... worthy of the citizenship they saw in store for them. In Russian, in Hebrew, and in Yiddish, in prose and in poetry, the one theme uppermost in the mind of all was enlightenment, or rather Russification. From all quarters the reveille was sounded. ...
— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin
... the long, long Night was past, And our Eagle, sweeping the traitor's crag, Circled to victory up the dome, The great Reveille was heard at last!— They wrapped the Mate in his country's flag, And sent ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various
... with the rug over his knees and one hand on a lion's head, he glanced first at the opened Times, because of the war. Among the few letters was one with the heading of the Reveille ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... shifting hilt and belt so as not to lie upon them again. Then, in spite of hunger and pain, a comfortable and exhilarating sensation stole over me, which I did not know to be the approach of sleep till I was roused by the reveille, and sprang up in a sitting posture, when the first man my eyes fell on was Denham, who was peering about among the troopers as if ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn
... whereupon, after having disposed of his share, he would start out upon a tour of regimental inspection, making friendly calls at various company quarters and by taps turning up at the headquarters of the guard. His duties ended for the day, he would enjoy his well-earned rest until reveille, unless some event of an unusual nature, occurring during the night, disturbed his repose ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten
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