"Conveyancing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... touched beyond mere vicarious pride in the achievement of our brothers-in-arms at the gate of Paris allow himself to miss the detailed narrative of HENRI DUGARD in The Battle of Verdun (HUTCHINSON). A good translation by F. APPLEBY HOLT, rather exceptional in these days of hurried conveyancing, does not detract from the vigour and movement of the story. We, who only saw the long agony through the medium of the always inadequate and discreet technicalities of the communiques, could form no real impression of the kind of fighting or of ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 24, 1917 • Various |
