The motorcycle patrol's decision to elect for discretion in lieu of suicidal valour was as immediate as it was automatic. - Alistair MacLean's Death Train

He says if it's a choice between a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany and internment in Switzerland he knows which side of the frontier he's coming down on... After that we fly down the Swiss side of Lake Constance, turn east at Lindau, climb to eight thousand to clear the mountains and it's only a hop, skip and jump to the Weissspitze. I see, Smith said weakly. But—but don't the Swiss object? Frequently, sir.

It is no small thing, Major, to be lost in a blizzard in the night skies over war-torn Europe.

Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is