"Ahead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Longstreet got up. This is evident from the fact that notwithstanding the early hour at which I had ordered the assault, both for the purpose of being the attacking party and to strike before Longstreet got up, Lee was ahead in his assault on our right. His purpose ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... philosopher, a novelist, a poet, and a dramatist. He loves the clouds and the sea, he truly loves mankind. Always through all he writes one feels a deep and elemental strength, an elemental belief in nature and truth. He is not ahead of his time; he is rather an interpreter and inspirer of his own day. This makes him the happy person that he is. He is greatly honored in Russia and in Germany, and by all writers ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
... curious, he thought, that a woman could take on the new rights, the aristocratic attitude, so much more completely than a man. Miss Hitchcock was a full generation ahead of the others in her conception of inherited, personal rights. As the dinner dragged on, there occurred no further opportunity for talk until near the end, when suddenly the clear, even tones of Miss Hitchcock's voice brought his idle musing to ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... myself, do you?" cried the oil promoter savagely. "All right, then, I will. According to reports Lorimer Spell ran out ahead of you in that fight, and then he was shot in the back. Do you understand that—shot in the back! Well, who did it? Certainly not the Germans. They were in front ...
— The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck - Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields • Edward Stratemeyer
... presents the subjective symptom of difficulty in starting the bolus of food downward. Once started, the food passes into the stomach unimpeded. Regurgitation, if it occurs, is immediate. The condition consists in a tonic contraction, ahead of the bolus, of the circular fibers of the inferior constrictor known as the cricopharyngeus muscle, or in a failure of this muscle to relax so as to allow the bolus to pass. In either case the disorder ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
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