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Quotes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1 That day I crossed the Venetian plain.
2 On both sides of us stretched the wet plain.
3 Ahead across the plain was the hill of Udine.
4 I knew there were plenty of side-roads across the plain.
5 No one had bothered us when we were in plain sight along the railway.
6 You were liable to arrest if you did not have one worn in plain sight.
7 It was a long plain iron bridge across what was usually a dry river-bed.
8 The fields were bare and wet; a long way away I could see a campanile rising out of the plain.
9 In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.
10 The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare.
11 We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north.
12 There was what was left of a railway station and a smashed permanent bridge that could not be repaired and used because it was in plain sight.
13 Crossing the fields to the north I had seen a train pass on this railroad, visible a long way across the flat plain, and I thought a train might come from Portogruaro.
14 I looked back down the road, the farmhouse was on a slight elevation above the plain, and we could see over the country, and saw the road, the hedges, the fields and the line of trees along the main road where the retreat was passing.
15 We went on and passed the regiment about a mile ahead, then crossed the river, cloudy with snow-water and running fast through the spiles of the bridge, to ride along the road across the plain and deliver the wounded at the two hospitals.
16 The mountains were sharp and steep on the other side of the lake and down at the end of the lake was the plain of the Rhone Valley flat between the two ranges of mountains; and up the valley where the mountains cut it off was the Dent du Midi.
17 The mountain that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south and we crossed the river in August and lived in a house in Gorizia that had a fountain and many thick shady trees in a walled garden and a wistaria vine purple on the side of the house.
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