Without so much as firing a shot, Higginson's regiments steamed up the St . JohnsRiver and, on March 10, took control of the town.
"There are no allegations and no evidence that he ever so much as fired a shot, even at Northern Alliance soldiers," the lawyers said in their court filing.
"What it said was that all entertainment is a risk — playing a violin concerto on the xylophone as much as swallowing fire," he told me not long ago.
While the new ants will also bite humans, it reportedly doesn't hurt nearly as much as a fire ant bite.
Proud as she is of being an accomplished sword swallower before she is able to drink legally in a bar makes Asia Ray proud, but not as much as her fire eating.
It was also evidence that as much as Arcade Fire may be pulling from dance and art rock -- check the abrupt stops and starts of "Joan of Arc" or the marbles-on-the-floor rhythms added by Haitian drummers Willonson 'Tiwill' Duprate and Jean-Romane 'Diol' Edmond to "Normal Person" -- that this large ensemble is still comprised of a bunch of rock 'n' roll insurgents at heart.
Screaming, "Help", will not do as much as screaming, "Fire!" It will make people intervene.
When the sheriff officer felt he had absorbed as much enemy fire as any local government official should be expected to in one day, he made a temporary surrender, saying he was leaving but that he would be back.
"Burning trips guided by the elders are as much about fire management as they are about passing on valuable ecological and cultural knowledge to younger generations," says the Central Land Council director, David Ross.
Reading the book in my 30s, it was Pierre's searching that resonated, his desire to forge an acceptable life on his own terms that rang true and, in understanding Pierre, I came also to understand that previously despised ending: the idea that life is about quieter pleasures as much as raging fires.
