"Under fire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just finished his wine, wiped his moustache delicately with his table-napkin. He was thinking— quickly, systematically, as men learn to think under fire. Perhaps, indeed, he had the thoughts half matured in his mind—as the greatest general the world has seen confessed that he ever had—that he was never taken quite by surprise. Vincente smiled as he thought: a habit he had acquired ...
— In Kedar's Tents • Henry Seton Merriman
... am: things as I can't understand and feel like. I allers was, sir, and fell foul o' myself for it; but then, as I says to myself, I ain't 'fraid o' nothing else. I'm pretty tidy and comf'table in the wussest o' storms, and I never care much if one's under fire, or them black beggars is chucking their spears at you, because you've got some'at to ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... steadfast, and every preparation had already been carefully made for energetic pursuit. Our troops fit for service numbered less than five thousand men, many of these hastily gathered militia, some of whom had never been under fire, but the warmth and comfort of the summer time, together with the good news from France, had inspired all with fresh courage. Whatever of dissension existed was only among the coterie of general officers, the men in the ranks being eager for battle, ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish
... At last the candidate under fire came out, a sickly grin on his face. Though the others looked at him curiously, not a ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock
... to him and engaged his interest. He was prodigiously embarrassed, not having previously addressed me otherwise than by a bow and blushes; and he advanced to me with an air of one stubbornly performing a duty, like a raw soldier under fire. I laid down my carving; greeted him with a good deal of formality, such as I thought he would enjoy; and finding him to remain silent, branched off into narratives of my campaigns such as Goguelat himself might have scrupled to endorse. He visibly thawed and brightened; drew more near ...
— St Ives • Robert Louis Stevenson
|
