One day Achilles is sullen, keeps his tent, and announces his intention to depart with all his men.

The next day Ajax is storming about the camp, and threatening to cut the throat of Ulysses.
Hence it was that, though the Highlanders achieved some great exploits in the civil wars of the seventeenth century, those exploits left no trace which could be discerned after the lapse of a few weeks.

Victories of strange and almost portentous splendour produced all the consequences of defeat.

Veteran soldiers and statesmen were bewildered by those sudden turns of fortune.

It was incredible that undisciplined men should have performed such feats of arms.