 | James Stevenson - Fiction - 1999 - 284 pages
...translating something from another of the many English quotations that she had learned in childhood: 'He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day; but he who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.' The farmer shrugged. 'The war has been... | |
 | George Wilson Booth - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...expert. In fact, the presentation of these pages is a forcible exemplification of the poetic truth that "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day." Colonel Elzey had very much resented the command of the brigade passing to General Smith, and, on the... | |
 | Anand Prahlad - Proverbs, Jamaican - 2001 - 332 pages
...away live to fight another day. Annot: MKH 2o7; OX 2oo-2o1, 256; AP 74; BR 74; NC 4o7; WH 222:F1oo, "He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day"; TW 132. Ole fire stick easy to catch. Prfrmr: The Itals, "Easy to Catch," Easy to Catch Prfrmr: Chin.... | |
 | Brian Leonard Mott - English language - 2003 - 259 pages
...Exercise 2. Sort the words in the following proverb into word-forms and wordexpressions (lexemes): He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. Exercise 3. From your English vocabulary, give a couple of examples of tokens of the same type which... | |
 | Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin - Fiction - 2003 - 416 pages
...crew, I would choose the last option. There is an ancient saying in the literature of Old Earth: 'For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; but he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.' " Jerdahn and Oratok exchanged glances... | |
 | Jeffrey Brace - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 266 pages
...their motion; on discovering their superior force, we fired upon them and ran off fully believing, That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day — We concealed ourselves behind a stone wall for some minutes, they lost sight of us, but continued... | |
 | William C. Wilson, Christopher M. Grande, David B. Hoyt - Medical - 2007 - 912 pages
...Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA INTRODUCTION For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. —Oliver Goldsmith, 1761 Kf* The term... | |
 | Paul Varnes - Florida - 2007 - 298 pages
...killed as they do at killing people. They do as my favorite poem by Goldsmith that Ma always read says, 'He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he who is in the battle slain, can never rise and fight again.' " That was something Ma read to... | |
 | Stephen Brennan - History - 2007 - 808 pages
...depended solely upon speed to overtake a fleeing ship or to escape a powerful adversary. Their motto, "He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day," was in reality the only literature the bold and adventurous pirate would comprehend or accept. Therefore,... | |
 | Fiction - 2007 - 308 pages
...not one yourself Every fight has its shadow Fight only when you can win; move away when you cannot He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day To fight once shows bravery, but to fight all the time is stupid We should bolster the light rather... | |
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For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 
