The local authorities … with the praiseworthy object of dispersing the scabby flock under their charge, provided the ranks of my corps with some desperate cases, whom they ordered to enlist as the alternative of going to prison.

Sir Stephen Bartlett Lakeman

We were all carried ashore, through a tremendous surf, sitting astride the shoulders of naked Fingos …

Captain William Ross King

Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.

Cormac McCarthy