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... and oftener, alas! by design than accident; the warrior always, whether Alexander at Persepolis, Antiochus at Jerusalem, Caesar and Omar at Alexandria, or General Ulrich at Strasburg (in 1870), esteeming it among the first duties of his barbarous calling to consign ideas and ...

— Books Condemned to be Burnt • James Anson Farrer

... his stall so arranged that there will be as little risk of the horse's food being stolen from the manger, as of the master's from his larder or store-closet. To neglect a detail of this kind is surely to neglect oneself; since in the hour of danger, it is certain, the owner has to consign himself, life and limb, to the safe keeping ...

— On Horsemanship • Xenophon

... exclaimed. "And to think that you, an Englishman, could consign your fellow-countrymen to such ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... for at the mention of the ordeal by fire Harry saw at once, as in a lightning flash, the villainous trap into which he had been betrayed, and the hideous fate to which it was intended to consign him. Leaping to his feet, he snatched the drawn sword from the hand of one of the astonished guards who surrounded him and, before any of them could interpose to prevent him, had leapt upon the dais and seized the ...

— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood

... you that these madmen have outlawed themselves by their attempts upon the liberty of the Council. In the name of that people, which for so many years have been the sport of terrorism, I consign to you the charge of rescuing the majority of their representatives; so that, delivered from stilettoes by bayonets, they may deliberate on ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

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