#scatter

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#bands #border #bull #camp #canadian

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#great #like #must #over #pain

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#calmed #centered #down #friends #get

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. ↗

— Aaron Hill

#counts #courage #dwells #flocks #herd

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise. ↗

— John Durham Peters

#dialogue #scattering #communication

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#common #communication #community #exist #extensive

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#farms #fort #hand #intervals #leavenworth

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#against #along #back #creeping #far

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#different #hands #i #i am #just