British General

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or general:

“Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)