"Mightiness" Quotes from Famous Books
... and asked him who told him to do that. He told him, and was at once directed to leave them and return to whatever he was doing before being interrupted. The yearling, confident in his red tape and his mightiness, ordered the plebe out again. His corporalship soon discovered his mistake, for the first-classman gave the plebe full information as to what could be required of him, and told him to disobey any improper order ... — Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper |