The Russians dashed on towards that thin red-line streak tipped with a line of steel.—Russell: The British Expedition to the Crimea (revised edition), p. 187.
Soon the men of the column began to see that though the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact.—Kinglake: Invasion of the Crimea, vol. iii. p. 455.
The spruce beauty of the slender red line.—Ibid. (sixth edition), vol. iii. p. 248.
[[861]] What you are pleased to call your mind.
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A solicitor, after hearing Lord Westbury's opinion, ventured to say that he had turned the matter over in his mind, and thought that something might be said on the other side; to which he replied, "Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind."—Nash: Life of Lord Westbury, vol. ii. 292.
When in doubt, win the trick.
Hoyle: Twenty-four Rules for Learners, Rule 12.
Wisdom of many and the wit of one.
A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock's,—"One man's wit, and all men's wisdom."—Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473.
Wooden walls of England.