There, assisted by the great distances he could play havoc with an invading British force; cut their slender communications and their cordons of blockhouses as the Boers are doing to-day in South Africa.
"The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal""
Sydney G. Fisher
How greatly our affection for him would increase if he took less State pay, and freed himself from all the grand cordons which tie his hands."
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
Mrs. Roger Marchbanks would be comparatively composed and in order, at Mrs. Lewis's, in a few days,-receiving her friends, who would hurry to make "fire-calls," as they would to make party or engagement or other special occasion visits; the cordons would be stretched again; not one of the crowd of people who went freely in and out of her burning rooms that night, and worked hardest, saving her library and her pictures and her carpets, would come up in cool blood and ring her door-bell now; the sanctity and the dignity would be as unprofanable as ever.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney