Famous quotes containing the words staff and/or general:
“Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in his shepherd s bag, in the pouch; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:40.
“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in general society.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)