They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never
kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
-- Red Cloud
Related:
So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].
With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to
maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of
corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to
flop up onto the land and evolve....
