1 Many of the men engaged in a spirited debate.
2 The youth was in a little trance of astonishment.
3 In visions he had seen himself in many struggles.
4 He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.
5 He had just put a costly board floor in his house, he said.
6 There was much food for thought in the manner in which he replied.
7 On the morrow, perhaps, there would be a battle, and he would be in it.
8 He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess.
9 They might not be distinctly Homeric, but there seemed to be much glory in them.
10 Of late, however, he had been impressed that they were in a sort of eternal camp.
11 One outlined in a peculiarly lucid manner all the plans of the commanding general.
12 From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust.
13 Moreover, on her side, was his belief that her ethical motive in the argument was impregnable.
14 His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds.
15 He could not accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth.
16 Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
17 A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.
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