Famous quotes containing the words rank, warrant and/or officer:
“The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Heres the challenge, read it. I warrant theres vinegar and pepper int.
Fabian. Ist so saucy?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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