"They ought to be at the Front. That's the sort they want there."
"They won't go, Sir. They're conscientious objectors."
From an article by Mr. Austin Harrison in The Sunday Pictorial:—
"A few strange gentlemen attitudinise in Westminster on principle, but these men would cut capers of principle in any case, like Mr. Snodgrass when he went skating."
Or Mr. Winkle when he wrote verses.
"In the Continental boat-trains the warning, 'Licht linauslehnen,' has not been removed from the windows.... Occasionally you see that 'Nicht linauslehnen' has been indignantly pasted over."—Provincial Paper.