The political merit of the first pensioner of his Grace's house was that of being concerned as a counsellor of state in advising, and in his person executing, the conditions of a dishonorable peace with France,-the surrendering the fortress of Boulogne, then our Outguard on the Continent.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
The political merit of the first pensioner of his Grace's house was that of being concerned as a counsellor of state in advising, and in his person executing, the conditions of a dishonorable peace with France,-the surrendering of the fortress of Boulogne, then our Outguard on the Continent.
"The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886"
Ministry of Education
And now even the low-lying foothills in which the elder Hunter had tried to see from homesick eyes a resemblance to the Outguard of his own Cumberlands were no longer given over to pasturage.
"Then I'll Come Back to You"
Larry Evans