With this magic raven as my omen, no warrior can worst me in battle, and I can conquer legions.
"The Green Forest Fairy Book"
Loretta Ellen Brady
I do not remember to have seen anything so uncanny on this front as the effect of our men moving in this heavy wet darkness like legions of shadows looming up in a grey way, and then blotted out.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
In the early days of the war, before the enemy's grey legions had swept down through Belgium in a great devastating tide, some of our artillery and our cavalry rode along the hog's back of the ridge and held it for a time against the enemy's advanced patrols.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs