 In my rough traveling suit, the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought of until...  Murray's Magazine - Page 1621887Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1912 - 912 pages
...smaller stars], I must have contrasted strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high, and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought of until afterwards.' Never was a great man less self-conscious than he, though, as I have observed elsewhere, while at the... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 pages
...lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that...old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army ; and I told him that as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...of faultless form. But this is not a matter that I thought of until afterward. " General Lee and I soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army, and I told him as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but owing... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...of faultless form. But this is not a matter that I thought of until afterward. " General Lee and I soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army, and I told him as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but owing... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 564 pages
...lieutenant-general — I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought of until afterward. We soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembered me... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1888 - 212 pages
...lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought of until afterwards. . General Grant. 57 "We soon fell into a conversation about old ;| army times. He remarked that he... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high, and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that...old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army ; and I told him that as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1894 - 694 pages
...lieutenantgeneral, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that...old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army; and I told him that as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 478 pages
...excuse. I do not question, however, the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us. We soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army; and I told him that as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1896 - 546 pages
...six feet hifh and of faultless form. But this was not О a matter that I thought of until afterward. We soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembe.'ed me very well in the old army, and I told him that as a matter of course I remembered him... | |
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