 | John Walter Gregory - Aboriginal Australians - 1906 - 384 pages
...V1SCOVKRY AND EXPLORATION OF LAKE EYRE There's a legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But split in a thousand detachments Is breaking the road for the rest. KIPLING. THE story of the exploration of South Australia has been often told ; but it has never been... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907
...Native-born! THE LOST LEGION 1895 1 HERE'S a Legion that never was 'listed. That carries no colours or crest. But, split in a thousand detachments, Is...They taught us, and groomed us, and crammed ; But we 've shaken the Clubs and the Messes To go and find out and be damned (Dear boys!), So some of us... | |
 | Daniel Crawford - Africa, Central - 1912 - 502 pages
...Kavanga : the Gates of the Morning "There's a legion that never was listed, That carries no colours nor crest, But split in a thousand detachments Is breaking the road for the rest," " I propose one more society in the Church— an SSSS— or Society for the Suppression of Superfluous... | |
 | Clarence Monroe Burton - Detroit (Mich.) - 1922
...those of whom it has been said: "There's an army that never was 'listed, Which carries no colors nor crest; But split in a thousand detachments Is breaking the road for the rest." WALLACE W. TUTTLE, factory manager and one of the organizers of the Four Wheel Hydraulic Brake Company... | |
 | Christine Stephanie Nicholls - History - 2005 - 349 pages
...people Kipling recalled with his lines: There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest . . . The ends of the Earth were our portion, The ocean at large was our share. There was never a skirmish... | |
 | Alistair Paterson - History - 2008 - 267 pages
...levels, that it, too, was textured. There's a Legion that never was listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. Kipling viewed the British Empire as being transformed in his lifetime, however this was not unidirectional... | |
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listed, That carries no colours or crest. But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. 