"Napoleonic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of a battalion of cavalry, he has no superior in the Rebel ranks. His command of his men is supreme. While they admire his generosity and manliness, sharing with them all the hardships of the field, they fear his more than Napoleonic severity for any departure from enjoined duty. His men narrate of him this—that upon one occasion, when engaging in a battle, he directed one of his troopers to perform a hazardous mission in the face of the ...
— Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army • William G. Stevenson
... anything else—so naturally she thought me a rude beast, and showed it. Besides, even if I'd dared, I should have had no chance to straighten matters out; for though the flag-episode was after all no fault of Slaney's, there were a few little things which had escaped even his Napoleonic memory; and it was only by combining the feats of an acrobat with those of a juggler that I saved my reputation ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... that between the mere chamois track and the first thing that can be called a path of men. From the Roman we go on to the mediaeval road with more frequent stone bridges, and from the mediaeval to the Napoleonic carriage road. ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
... personal opposition to Cowperwood—none, at least, of a deep-seated character. At the same time Hand, Merrill, and Schryhart were his friends. In him, they felt, centered the financial leadership of the city. The rise of Cowperwood, his Napoleonic airs, threatened this. As Mr. Arneel talked he never raised his eyes from the desk where he was sitting. He merely drummed solemnly on the surface with his fingers. The others contemplated him a little tensely, catching quite clearly the ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... said the Frenchman, with the true Napoleonic grasp of the situation, and he bounced in a lithe, over-confident manner ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
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