1 The chorus peaked over the still earth.
2 The body seemed to bounce a little way from the earth.
3 It landed in the grove, and exploding redly flung the brown earth.
4 They used stones sticks, earth, and anything they thought might turn a bullet.
5 In the air, always, was a mighty swell of sound that it seemed could sway the earth.
6 It swelled with amazing speed to a profound clamor that involved the earth in noises.
7 As another officer sped his horse after the first messenger, the general beamed upon the earth like a sun.
8 The sun spread disclosing rays, and, one by one, regiments burst into view like armed men just born of the earth.
9 He could not accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth.
10 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
11 Again, he saw a blue wave dash with such thunderous force against a gray obstruction that it seemed to clear the earth of it and leave nothing but trampled sod.
12 But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
13 And he had not raised his voice when he had been ordered away from three little protective piles of earth and stone, each of which had been an engineering feat worthy of being made sacred to the name of his grandmother.
14 When the sunrays at last struck full and mellowingly upon the earth, the youth saw that the landscape was streaked with two long, thin, black columns which disappeared on the brow of a hill in front and rearward vanished in a wood.