"Inactively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fared even worse. For the outposts of an army to sleep is at all times considered as a thing impossible; but in modern and civilized warfare they are nevertheless looked upon as in some degree sacred. Thus, whilst two European armies remain inactively facing each other, the outposts of neither are molested, unless a direct attack upon the main body be intended; nay, so far is this tacit good understanding carried, that I have myself seen French and English sentinels ...
— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig |
