Word: rampart
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...reply to the man who proposed a regiment of gentlemen in the army: "What do you mean by 'gentlemen,' Drivers of gigs?" As to the loss of dignity from eagerness to serve, we had an idea that Colonel Shaw actually "scrambled" up to his place on the Ft. Wagner rampart, where the bullet found him, and where our reverent fancy will keep him forever...
...that?" cries the pitcher. "One ball!" yells the umpire, stationed on a small tower at a little distance. And armed with an immense telescope. "What?" says the pitcher, and he pulls out a revolver and blazes away. The umpire is just in time to dodge down behind the rampart of his observatory, and the shot whizzes harmlessly over his head. Play is resumed. "Strike!" "What?" says the batter, in his run, and he too takes a pop at the unfortunate umpire, who this time gets his hat knocked off. Suddenly an immense in-curve strikes the batter on the head...
...alive. If you talk philosophically, she will call it nonsense; if you talk romance, will listen with impatience; if love, with a sad yet knowing smile, say she has no time to talk, and begin diligently to roll up innumerable yards of ribbon that seem left under her rampart, the counter, for this very purpose. You may rarely take her off her guard, and she seems the same "yesterday, to-day," - but all of a sudden she is gone. You miss her again, - she is dead...
Wandered along the ruined rampart's line...