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Battle-field, the_ Military Instructor _threatening to write to the "Times," and_ TOMMY ATKINS _still grinning as Curtain falls.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 Various
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Other mines in the vicinity are the Lemmonds, New South, Crump and Battle-field.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Battle-field, place of Cavalry in, 81, 84; case of Mars la Tour, 82; best formation for, 85; decided by circumstances of case, 82, 85; simple formations alone applicable on, 225;
Cavalry in Future Wars Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889
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I shall try and persuade Mr. Calvert, who has sent to me for a letter to you, to find room in his trunk for a poor lithograph portrait of our Concord “Battle-field,” so called, and village, that you may see the faint effigy of the fields and houses in which we walk and love you.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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-- I remain in the Woods near the Battle-field all
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-- I remain in the Woods near the Battle-field all
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Messrs. Bacon and Co., of Paternoster-row, have just issued a coloured plan of the Battle-field of Fredericksburg, in which the position of the Federal and the Confederate forces are clearly marked.
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The moral courage of the "Hero of the Battle-field" would shrink in horror from scenes like these; but such is the fate of woman, to whom God grant no future "hell."
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863
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No less satisfactory is his sudden appearance not in Battle, yet on some Battle-field; which, we soon gather, must be that of Wagram; so that here, for once, is a certain approximation to distinctness of date.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I shall try and persuade Mr. Calvert, who has sent to me for a letter to you, to find room in his trunk for a poor lithograph portrait of our Concord "Battle-field," so called, and village, that you may see the faint effigy of the fields and houses in which we walk and love you.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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