"Marcher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want it, myself, it may turn out useful to keep up some wounded comrade. It will not add much to the load that I shall have to carry, and which I expect I shall feel, when we first march. As I am now, I think I could keep up with the best marcher in the regiment but, with the weight of the clothes and pouches, a hundred and twenty rounds of ammunition, and my rifle, it will be a very different thing; and I shall be desperately tired, by the time we get to the end of the ...
— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty
... Barut avec mon moucre le lendemain du jour ou la galere avoit mis a la voile, et nous primes le chemin de Saiette, entre la mer et les montagnes. Souvent ces montagnes s'avancent si pres du rivage qu'on est oblige de marcher sur la greve, et quelquefois elles en sont eloignees ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... were eager, its lips parted, as if each step was the first the marcher had ever taken; and yet he was stumbling, almost asleep from tiredness. A young man he was, with skin drawn tight over his heavy cheek-bones and jaw, under the platter of his helmet, and burdened with all his soldier's load. At first I saw his face alone in the darkness, ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy
... ordonnent de vivre et de combattre en citoyens d'un peuple libre, de marcher rsolument dans l'ouragan de fer vers la paix qui se levera comme une belle aurore sur l'Europe affranchie des menaces de ses tyrans, et verra renatre, faibles et timides encore, la JUSTICE et L'HUMANITE touffes par ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... satisfait de ma generosite, et me donna autant de benedictions que je donnia de coups de pieds dans les flancs de ma mule, pour m'eloigner promptement de lui; mais la maudite bete, trompant mon impatience, n'en alla pas plus vite; la longue habitude qu'elle avoit de marcher pas a pas sous mon oncle lui avoit fait perdre l'usage ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
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