Ten Syllable

Famous quotes containing the words ten and/or syllable:

    “Now boys, remember you are the Twenty-third, and give them hell. In these woods the Rebels don’t know but we are ten thousand; and if we fight, and when we charge yell, we are as good as ten thousand, by God.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)