"What has happened?" asked a veteran.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering life away; New forms arise, and different views engage, Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

They drank his health, forced him into the place of honour by the side of Honeybrook, veteran of the club, and ate their meal to the accompaniment of ceaseless bursts of laughter, chaff, the popping of corks, mock speeches, badinage of every sort.

Victor Emmanuel could not advance on Rome and Venice with an "army of red shirts;" he could not overcome the armed veterans of Austria and France as Garibaldi had prevailed over the discontented troops of Francis II.,he must await his opportunity.

Then he took his new eleven, seven of them old Lakerim veterans, out on the field, and worked with them early and late.

"We had better get out of here, by God," exclaimed the bluff old veteran.

Post war records show that disabilities cannot deter veterans as athletes and outdoor sport devotees.

On an old battle-field which had been illustrated by an achievement of the Stonewall division especially brilliant, I chanced to meet a grey veteran who had taken part in it, a North Carolinian who had come back to review the scene.

I never see these impostors, but I long to strip them, to warm my ragged veterans in their spoils.

I have known veterans to go mad at the screaming of shells.

Therefore Concobar went himself to summon the veterans.

In Adalia, chiefly remarkable for the Indestructo Safe Works and a river which annually overflows its banks, with casualties, the houses sit well back from tree-bordered streets, most of them frame, shingle-roofed veterans that have lived through the cycle-like years of the bearing, the marrying, the burying of two, even three, generations of the same surname.

A good description of a cavalry charge was given by Private Capel of the Third British Hussars, a veteran of the Boer war, who took part in the fighting beginning at Mons and was separated from his regiment in a charge at Coulommiers, in the battle of the Marne, when his horse fell.

As the emperor rode forward bareheaded to greet his maimed veterans, I heard laughter among the staff that surrounded him.

What do you think, Doc?" "Humph!" grunted the veteran.

"Did you hear those dirty Bucktail veterans back there poking fun at us?

Some raw recruitsfor Nero dared not intrust any veterans with the dutybrought the mandate to Piso, who proceeded to make a will full of disgraceful adulation towards Nero, opened his veins, and died.

Some minor reinforcements also kept arriving: veterans from the border settlements and a hundred and fifty men from Newfoundland.

Report exaggerated his force to thirty thousand men, though it did not in fact amount to more than half that number; but he was closely followed by Monroe, who led three thousand veterans from the Scottish army in Ireland, and was accompanied or preceded by Sir Marmaduke Langdale, the commander of four thousand Cavaliers, men of approved valour, who had staked their all on the result.

At Alexandria, left alone, McClellan Your veterans sent from you, and thrown To fields and fortunes all unknown What thoughts were yours, revealed to none, While faithful still you labored on Hearing the far Manassas gun!

The chief saw the awkwardness of his own position, measured the bony veteran and the athletic foreigner with his eye, and judged that if the two were convinced that they were dealing with madmen they would make a pretty good fight.

The regiment at this time mustered nearly 1,000 men, half that number old and gallant veterans of from ten to twenty years' service.

For he needed her, needed her as a child needs a teacher, as a recruit needs a disciplined veteran.

It nettled the veteran.

"Beware," says one, "how you offend the veterans."