Sheridan

Famous quotes containing the word sheridan:

    “Here is the steed that saved the day,
    By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
    From Winchester, twenty miles away!”
    Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)

    I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.
    Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)