"On base" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the poison, and I'll end your strife; I hate to keep a poor precarious life. Would I my safety on base terms receive, Know, sir, I could have lived without your leave. But those I could accuse, I can forgive; By my disdainful ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden
... poison, and I'll end your strife; I hate to keep a poor precarious life. Would I my safety on base terms receive, Know, sir, I could have lived without your leave. But those I could accuse, I can forgive; By my disdainful silence, ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden
... fall it became necessary to have two more columns in the field, one on the Onega River with Onega as a base and one on the Pinega River with Pinega as a base. By the time this became necessary, the rush on base work was over and "B" Company was moved forward, having one detachment of one sergeant and twelve men with "D" force and one platoon with Onega River Column. The remainder of the company was doing construction and fortification work on the lines of communication along the railroad ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... the run, in their platoons and are then marched to relative position on base platoon as indicated by position ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
... may have derived from it, just as the satisfaction with which we look back upon a right action far more than compensates for any pain with which it may have been attended. The 'mens sibi conscia recti' is the highest reward which a man can have, as, on the other hand, the retrospect on base, unjust, or cruel actions constitutes the most acute of torments. Now, when a man looks back upon his past actions, what he regards is not so much the result of his acts as the intention and the motives by which the intention was ...
— Progressive Morality - An Essay in Ethics • Thomas Fowler |
