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They reach their glacises, their ditches, covered ways, correct as mathematics; tear out chevaux-de-frise, hew down palisades, in the given number of minutes: Swift, ye Regiment's-carpenters; smite your best!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas