Competition is the battle of the strongest, the quickest, the meanest!

All that is well, but what is such courage, stimulated by excitement and braced by the ignominy which follows the laggard in such a strife, to that calm, enduring, moral courage of him who encounters the toil and hardships incident to the settlement of a new country, and battles with the dangers, the long years of privation, which lie before the pioneer who goes into the forest to carve out a home for himself and his children?

The next stream of any importance was the Little Blue, along which the trail ran for sixty miles; then crossed a range of sand-hills and struck the Platte river ten miles below Old Fort Kearney; thence the course lay up the South Platte to the old Ash Hollow Crossing, thence eighteen miles across to the North Plattenear the mouth of the Blue Water, where General Harney had his great battle in 1855 with the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.

"You remember that lame fellow saved a battle for us by knowing how to shoe the general's horse.

When he was not fighting his country's battles at sea, he was besieging Parliament to bring about reforms in the Navy.

British Battles on Land and Sea.

Here and there a 'clearing' let in the sunlight, and the woodman's axe broke the forest stillness as he battled against the brave old trees.

The enemy, as it is, can open a Sabine campaign on us, and tie our hands by stretching Northern women out in a line of battle between the ranks!"

It took four or five days to get them from the field of battle to the hospital, their wounds during that tame being generally unattended to.

One might as well say, I prefer to fight in battle by myself!

"Now eat, brothers," cried the bowman, full-mouthed, "eat and spare not, as I do, for to-day I smell the battle from afar:

It is hardly to be reckoned that we could fight a pitched battle without losin' some portion of our company, and I would have this brave rescue of yours accomplished with as little cost as may be.

The contents of the baggage-wagons were thrown out to make room for our wounded, and, while the uproar of the battle near the fort rang in our ears, we retreated from that valley of death.

He knew, too, that it was only a question of time until the main British fleet would approach and he determined to win the battle before the arrival of new foes.

There was not so much one battle as a variety of battles; every garden and orchard became a scene of deadly contest; every inch of ground was disputed, with an agony of grief and valor, by the Moors; every inch of ground that the Christians advanced they valiantly maintained; but never did they advance with severer fighting or greater loss of blood.

I would rather hear thee sing a song of love and battle than a sad thing like that.

Armies of Asiatics, armies of Gauls, each claiming to represent Rome, battled over her helpless body.

For some were sunk and many were shatter'd, and so could fight us no more God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?

Thou concealest the time of the battle under these fine poetical expressions 'either when Ceres is spread abroad, or gathered together:' and thou wouldst cajole us with such pompous language!

This man subdued the Aradii, who had been besieged up to this time and had been reduced to hard straits by famine and disease, and conquered Antigonus in battle after killing the Roman guards that he kept about him, and reduced him by siege when he took refuge in Jerusalem.

THE INDIAN MUTINY, J. Talboys Wheeler (1859) THE BATTLES OF MAGENTA and SOLFERINO, Pietro Orsi (1859) DARWIN PUBLISHES HIS ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Charles Robert Darwin (1860)

Survivors who arrived at Edinburgh on June 5 from British destroyers which made a massed attack on a German battleship in the battle off Jutland, were convinced that they sent to the bottom the dreadnaught Hindenburg, the pride of the German navy.

THE FIRST BATTLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH THE UNION FORCES SCORED A DECISIVE VICTORYTHE

" The transformation of a line of battle into an efficient "back of the Army" requires, it seems, an amazing amount of human energy, contrivance, and endurance.

But if I contemplate him in battle beneath the walls of Jerusalem; if I am a spectator of his entry into the Holy City; if I see him ardent, brave, powerful and pure, valiant and gentle, humble and proud, refusing to wear the golden crown in the Holy City where Jesus wore the crown of thorns, I am not then anxiousI am not curiousto learn from whom he holds his fief, or to know the names of his vassals; and I exclaim, "There is the knight!"