“There is so much uniformity in the routine of naval discipline, that, in spite of any variety in the systems established, things do somehow contrive to run on to their final purpose pretty well.”
“Where nature seems to have intended the most exact uniformity, as among individuals of the same kind, there still appears a diversity.”
“We continued to march along over a dreary tract of monotonous desolation, nothing varying the dull uniformity of each day's journey.”