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Marcio_Osorio · 04-04-2008, 01:01 AM

"The general commanding his division was not content to obey orders blindly without knowing what was in his front, even when his command was not on detached service [...]" -- The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, by Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins, p. 4.
"In surveying the mass with a view to determining that point, his attention was arrested by what seemed to be a ring of shining metal [...]" -- Ibidem, p. 9.

I transcribed both passages from the same book, a book which I have never read BTW. Can you E-Prime them for me?

04-04-2008, 01:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
Marcio_Osorio Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Posts: 171	Was not content "The general commanding his division was not content to obey orders blindly without knowing what was in his front, even when his command was not on detached service [...]" -- The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, by Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins, p. 4. "In surveying the mass with a view to determining that point, his attention was arrested by what seemed to be a ring of shining metal [...]" -- Ibidem, p. 9. I transcribed both passages from the same book, a book which I have never read BTW. Can you E-Prime them for me?