Citations:Pickett's charge

English citations of Pickett's charge

1997, John Katzenbach, State of Mind, page 167
She would line the pills up and think historically: Pickett's charge. A valiant and romantic effort against a strongly entrenched and implacable army.
2002, Nicholas Dawidoff, Baseball: A Literary Anthology, page 335
You went to Yankee Stadium if you were the kind of man who enjoyed yelling for Grant at Richmond; you went to the National League parks to see Pickett's charge.
2003, Isabel Zuber, Salt: A Novel, page 159
These fellows will go for the direct frontal assault, Pickett's charge, or some such nonsense.

1992, George P. Garrett, Whistling in the Dark: True Stories and Other Fables, page 89
Though Garibaldi's flight was mighty small shakes compared to Pickett's charge — which, like all Southerners, I tend to view in Miltonic terms,
2000, James Brady, The House That Ate the Hamptons: A Novel of Lily Pond Lane, page 252
I don't mean to suggest this was Pickett's charge or the battle of the Little Bighorn;
2007, Richard Savage, In the Swim - A Story of Currents and Under-Currents in Gayest New York, page 136
This "Pickett's charge" of these demure Demi-Vierges was successful.

2003, Everette James, Rutledge, page 180
This is a worse decision than Pickett's charge. They think they are stonewalling the Philistines but what they are doing is handing them a hydrogen bomb.

1988, Harold Coyle, Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III, page 121
The specter of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and Pickett's Charge began to loom before him.
1999, Lee Magner, Owen's Touch: Try to Remember, page 233
"But you keep the doors locked and hurry straight into the courthouse, and if anyone comes near you, scream like Pickett's Charge."
2004, Christina Bartolomeo, The Side of the Angels, page 15
He probably thought Pickett's Charge was a new kind of credit card.
2003, Valerie S. Malmont, Death Pays the Rose Rent, [age 304
... had drunk a little too much homemade moonshine and were attempting to reenact Pickett's Charge against the medieval encampment in the next field.
2003, Sonny Brewer, Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe II: Anthology of Southern Writers, page 146
And when they are settled and he is home from his wandering he may have a flickering moment, a sort of Pickett's Charge across the synaptic field toward