Quotes by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - Page 1

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Fighting
Frantic
Gestures
Littles
Scene
Attempt
Describe
Followed
Oaths
Shall
Taunt
Therefore
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All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Agreed
Billy
Issue
Opinions
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I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Blood
Eye
Wounds
Cheek
Ear
Entirely
Piece
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It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Harmony
Billy
Women Together World
Hen
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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Appearance
Countenance
Ears
Expressive
Fire
Horse
Loss
Thrown
Unnatural
Vigilance
Goodly
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But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Prowess
Strange
Good Women Wife
Heroes
Husbands
Ladies
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In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
County
Georgia
Republic
Vocabulary
Admitted
Younger
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There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Don't Care
Feet
Fling
Miles
Mistake
Sun
Bullet
Pick
Resting
Shine
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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Court
Principal
Riding
Session
Supreme
Supreme Court
Up And Down
Village
Young Man
Collected
Observed
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Fear
Home
Arrested
Broke
Fright
Going Home
Moving
Traveller
Bridle
Bullet
Dashed
Disgust
Farther
Grand
Negotiations
Rattling
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Active
Eighty
Feet
Flesh
Former
Latter
Stockings
Ten
Inch
Lighter
Measured
Pound
Rival
Weighed
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