Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in chapter 24, page 452 of John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army:
... an unwonted task, I was much too prudent to address the guests in a language which they all understood.
But by a free use of those words and phrases which are so common in the military language of France and of this country, linked together by as little Anglo-Saxon as possible, I made a
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