Siege of Petersburg/boydton Plank Road October 27-28

Famous quotes containing the words siege of, siege, plank, road and/or october:

    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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    If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
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    Through the hollow globe, a ring
    of frayed rusty scrapiron,
    is it the sea that shines?
    Is it a road at the world’s edge?
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    Especially when the October wind
    With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
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