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Quotes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1 I'm past where I was going to die.
2 We went on past other windows and turned down a side street.
3 He showed me the silhouettes before he pasted them on white paper and handed them to the girls.
4 We came along past the chained boats in the slips along the quay to where the barman's boat should be.
5 They came past us with the black horse well in front and on the turn he was running away from the others.
6 Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors.
7 We came into the town past the factories and then the houses and villas and I saw that many more houses had been hit.
8 He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me.
9 When we were out past the tanneries onto the main road the troops, the motor trucks, the horse-drawn carts and the guns were in one wide slow-moving column.
10 I sucked on that and spit out the pith and watched the soldier pass up and down past a freight-car outside and after a while the train gave a jerk and started.
11 We walked along together, along the sidewalk past the wine shops, then across the market square and up the street and through the archway to the cathedral square.
12 I followed him into the train, crowding past people and along the aisle and in through a door to where the machine-gunner sat in the corner of a full compartment.
13 We got past the town to the north without seeing any Italians, then after a while came on the main channels of the retreat and walked all night toward the Tagliamento.
14 The girls dressed to go after lunch while Crowell and I sat on the bed in his room and read the past performances of the horses and the predictions in the racing paper.
15 I told him to get it and when it came I gave him the change and the man beside me and I got drunk and slept until past Vicenza where I woke up and was very sick on the floor.
16 We leaned on the fence and watched the horses go by, their hoofs thudding as they went past, and saw the mountains off in the distance and Milan beyond the trees and the fields.
17 After dinner we walked through the galleria, past the other restaurants and the shops with their steel shutters down, and stopped at the little place where they sold sandwiches; ham and lettuce sandwiches and anchovy sandwiches made of very tiny brown glazed rolls and only about as long as your finger.
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