"Militiaman" Quotes from Famous Books
... fourteen nominal days' training a year in the drill-hall, and, of late years, a voluntary camp of five days. For each of these days two night drills of two hours each count as a day; the militiaman receives the sum of four shillings, with a slight increase ... — From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade • Frederic C. Curry
... milked, satisfied and comfortable as a minister; wee calves shy as babies; donkeys with the cross of Christ on their back; goats would butt you and you not looking; hens a-cackle, and cocks strutting like a militiaman and him back from the camp; quiet horses had the strength of twenty men, and scampering colts had legs on them like withes. Up here was nothing, but you ... — The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne |