After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, Is not this nice?
It would be impossibly inefficient to maintain ten million separate standing armies, so each variety of white cell keeps only a few scouts on active duty.
When the details reached the United States, the country prepared for war, prompting disagreements between Hamilton and Adams about the need for a standing army.