Thereafter the Spaniards had all the provisions they needed.
"Common sense," said Wendell Phillips, "bows to the inevitable and makes use of it." When Caesar stumbled in landing on the beach of Britain, he instantly grasped a handful of sand and held it aloft as a signal of triumph, hiding forever from his followers the ill omen of his threatened fall.
Goethe, speaking of some comparisons that had been instituted between himself and Shakespeare, said: "Shakespeare always hits the right nail on the head at once; but I have to stop and think which is the right nail, before I hit." It has been said that a few pebbles from a brook in the sling of a David who knows how to send them to the mark are more effective than a Goliath's spear and a Goliath's strength with a Goliath's clumsiness.
"Get ready for the redskins!" shouted an excited man as he galloped up to the log-cabin of the Moore family in Ohio many years ago; "and give me a fresh horse as soon as you can.

They killed a family down the river last night, and nobody knows where they'll turn up next!" "What shall we do ?" asked Mrs.Moore, with a pale face.

"My husband went away yesterday to buy our winter supplies, and will not be back until morning." "Husband away?
Whew! that's bad! Well, shut up as tight as you can.
Cover up your fire, and don't strike a light to-night." Then springing upon the horse the boys had brought, he galloped away to warn other settlers.
Mrs.Moore carried the younger children to the loft of the cabin, and left Obed and Joe to watch, reluctantly yielding the post of danger to them at their urgent request.

"They're coming, Joe!" whispered Obed early in the evening, as he saw several shadows moving across the fields.

"Stand by that window with the axe, while I get the rifle pointed at this one." Opening the bullet-pouch, he took out a ball, but nearly fainted as he found it was too large for the rifle.