If it was whispered at the Alma, it was spoken aloud at Inkermann, it was shouted at Balaclava.

Before Sebastopol the hideous thing was proved.

Wilmington was acting as galloper to his general.

I believe upon my soul the general chose him for the duty, so that the fellow might set himself right.

There were three hundred yards of bullet-swept flat ground, and a message to be carried across them.