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  • (Anyway, Wills is not one to talk, as he similarly quotes Trenchard's 1697 Argument.)

    To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange Lattimer, John K. 1995

  • Trenchard's tall form seemed to stiffen, his mocking smile vanished, but his eyes never wavered.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • But I was greatly struck by Trenchard's manner of taking these remarks.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Before I give the extracts from Trenchard's diary that follow I would like to say that I do not believe that Trenchard had any thought whatever, as he wrote, of publication.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • "Yes, he's an English gentleman," I said when he had listened for a moment to Trenchard's Russian.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • I was surprised at Trenchard's interest; I had thought him so wrapt in his own especial affair that nothing outside it could occupy him.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • There leapt upon us then, with an agitation that seemed to silence the very battery itself, Trenchard's voice:

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • I am sure that had it been I who had been in Trenchard's position he would not have stretched out one finger to help me.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Trenchard's night at the Position; he was vexed, I think, to hear that the fellow had proved himself a man -- and a practical man with common sense.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • I had no opinion of Trenchard's intellect at all, and in that I was quite wrong.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

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