 | Loyd J. Overfield - History - 1990 - 212 pages
...that has gratuitously fed him for three years. He is truly a shrewd chief, who must have discovered that he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. The Indians were not all engaged at any one time; heavy reserves were held to repair losses and renew... | |
 | Thomas Douglas Whitcombe - History - 1992 - 254 pages
...Plan, compiled by J. Newberry and revised and enlarged by O. Goldsmith, London, 1762, II, p. 147: For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another...is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 70. Shakespeare, As You Like It II.vii.152. 71. This quotation would seem to be an adaptation of Gen.... | |
 | Emanuel Strauss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 616 pages
...away, may turn and fight another day e) he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day f ) he who fights and runs away may live to fight another...is in battle slain can never rise and fight again g) the better part of valour is discretion h) valour can do little without discretion diseases are... | |
 | Sallie A. Brock - History - 1996 - 404 pages
...borrowed for their heels wings from Mercury, and practiced the admirable, but not very courageous precept that, "He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." It is usual to depreciate our public men. It seems to be altogether forgotten that the universal suffrage... | |
 | James Stevenson - Fiction - 1999 - 284 pages
...translating something from another of the many English quotations that she had learned in childhood: 'He who fights and runs away may live to fight another...in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.' The farmer shrugged. 'The war has been over for six years, the fighting has finished.' Anna held out... | |
 | George Wilson Booth - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...expert. In fact, the presentation of these pages is a forcible exemplification of the poetic truth that "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day." Colonel Elzey had very much resented the command of the brigade passing to General Smith, and, on the... | |
 | Anand Prahlad - Proverbs, Jamaican - 2001 - 332 pages
...away live to fight another day. Annot: MKH 2o7; OX 2oo-2o1, 256; AP 74; BR 74; NC 4o7; WH 222:F1oo, "He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day"; TW 132. Ole fire stick easy to catch. Prfrmr: The Itals, "Easy to Catch," Easy to Catch Prfrmr: Chin.... | |
 | Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin - Fiction - 2003 - 416 pages
...crew, I would choose the last option. There is an ancient saying in the literature of Old Earth: 'For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another...day; but he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.' " Jerdahn and Oratok exchanged glances and nodded. Then Joh'jym grinned at Sulu. "I... | |
 | Brian Leonard Mott - English language - 2003 - 259 pages
...Exercise 2. Sort the words in the following proverb into word-forms and wordexpressions (lexemes): He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. Exercise 3. From your English vocabulary, give a couple of examples of tokens of the same type which... | |
 | Jeffrey Brace - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 266 pages
...their motion; on discovering their superior force, we fired upon them and ran off fully believing, That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day — We concealed ourselves behind a stone wall for some minutes, they lost sight of us, but continued... | |
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For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 
