Word: armaments
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...fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel...
...swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will deter Harvard students who have once made up their minds adversely on the general question, from beginning the fight just at this very point, and doing what little they can towards bringing the threatened increase of armament to naught...
This was enough. After having provided an armament for the contemplated slaughter of game, and ammunition enough to storm a fort, our party arrives, on a superb moonlit evening, at the neat and homelike Samoset. Mine host is something of a character, being a combination of the old sea-captain and English country gentleman. After a substantial supper and a bottle of Scotch ale he is ever a philosopher, with the tenets of Epicurus, and desires nothing better than a new lease of life, with permission to live on the Gurnet, with his dog and gun, and observe the revolution...