He wrote in bitter and frantic terms, calling them fiends and murderers in his letter, if they abandoned the positions thus disgracefully, before they had suffered or witnessed any hardship.

[XXXIX (12)]

There is a courage in words too which can despise death.

[XXXIX (14)]

Before he had been rejoined by the stragglers of the skirmishing parties.

[XL (27)]

Being utterly at a loss, at last he rested his chance of escape from the difficulty which was upon him on some such hope as this.

[XLI (30)]

None of the citizens being aware of what was taking place owing to the distance, for the city was a large one.

[XLII (32)]