Beneath him lay a narrow valley , open and grassy , from which rose a faint murmurmurmurof runningrunwater .
* Washington , who , after uselessly admonishingadmonishthe European general of the danger into which he was heedlessly runningrun, savedsavethe remnants of the British army , on this occasion , by his decision and courage .
On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be -- as here they are -- mistily engagedengagein one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause , trippingtripone another up on slippery precedents , gropinggropeknee-deep in technicalities , runningruntheir goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretencepretenceof equity with serious faces , as players might .
No , I 'm runningrunon too fast : I bestowbestowmy own attributes over-liberally on him .