Constabulary/list

Famous quotes containing the words constabulary and/or list:

    When constabulary duty’s to be done,
    A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
    Went down the list of the dead.
    Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
    The crews of the gig and yawl,
    The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
    Carpenters, coal-passers—all.
    Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)