In a climate such as prevails here at least two thirds of the year, it is impossible to manoeuvre troops in the open air with any degree of comfort, not to say safety; hence this structure was raised and supplied with huge stoves to afford the means of exercising the troops even in mid-winter.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Mr. Browning was walking alone, in a wood near Dulwich, when the image flashed upon him of some one walking thus alone through life; one apparently too obscure to leave a trace of his or her passage, yet exercising a lasting though unconscious influence at every step of it; and the image shaped itself into the little silk-winder of Asolo, Felippa, or Pippa.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Personally I believe in every one's exercising his own judgment.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith