"Yes, ca marche," I answered.
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
This maner of speech is termed the figure of digression by the Latines, following the Greeke originall, we also call him the straggler by allusion to the souldier that marches out of his array, or by those that keepe no order in their marche, as the battailes well ranged do: of this figure there need be geuen no example.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
For if I cannot persuade thee, rather to doe good unto both parties, then to ouerthrowe and destroye the one, preferring loue and nature before the malice and calamitie of warres: thou shalt see, my sonne, and trust unto it, thou shalt no soner marche forward to assault thy countrie, but thy foote shall tread upon thy mother's wombe, that brought thee first into this world.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith