"Ironsides" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you; whereas she will never understand her father. Spurlock: 'tis Roundhead, sure enough. Go to her, I say, and take her in your arms, you poor benighted Ironsides! I can't make you see. Man, if you tell her you love her, and later they took you away to prison, who would sit at the prison gate until your term was up? Ruth. Why am I here—thirty years of loneliness? Because I know women, the good and the bad; and because I could not have ...
— The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath
... everybody, I think, will find plenty to attract him in Sir ALBERT STERN'S finely illustrated Tanks 1914-1918 (HODDER AND STOUGHTON). Tanks were born at Lincoln, and rightly so, for did not OLIVER CROMWELL'S Ironsides mostly come from this region?—and the main theme of this book is to show how much more formidable an obstacle they found in the files and registries of Whitehall than in the trenches and wire-entanglements ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various |
