Bernard Cornwell: Man (page 2)

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“I'll put a word in for you, Sharpe, because a man shouldn't be disciplined for killing the enemy, but I don't suppose my help will do you any good.”

Bernard Cornwell

Brigadier General Robert Craufurd, p. 319
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)

Help

“Sharpe, Lossow suspected, often got what he wanted, but the achievements never seemed to satisfy. His friend, the German decided, was like a man who, searching for a crock of gold, found ten and rejected them all because the pots were the wrong shape.”

Bernard Cornwell

Captain Lossow, King's German Legion, p. 22
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)

Search

“The Major was a courteous man, judicious and sensible, but he doubted the fighting efficiency of the South Essex would be improved by a campaign to improve its manners.”

Bernard Cornwell

Major Joseph Forrest, p. 148
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)

Fight

“Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.”

Bernard Cornwell

Narrator, p. 168
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)

Death , Fear , Learning