"Double time" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... might be a fire some place. It seemed a long time before the companies got in line, and then I noticed that instead of fire buckets they were carrying rifles. Directly every company started off on double time and disappeared in between two sets of barracks at one corner of the parade ground. Then everything was unusually quiet; not a human being to be seen except the sentry at the guardhouse, who ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe |
