Once bitten, twice shy

“I heard them say, ‘He was shot twice,’” the father, Joseph Dossi, remembers.

He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.

We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.

When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.

As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.

Each picture bore a label, giving a true description of the once-honoured gem.