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Letter "C" » common soldier
«Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.»
«OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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About:
Obsessions
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«The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.»
«The common soldier's blood makes the general great»
«Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.»
Author: Karl Marx
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
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Civil List,
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