RETREAT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1 The next night the retreat started.
2 A retreat was no place for two virgins.
3 The retreat was orderly, wet and sullen.
4 There was no need to confuse our retreat.
5 I had not realized how gigantic the retreat was.
6 "I like a retreat better than an advance," Bonello said.
7 In the night word came that we were to prepare to retreat.
8 I had done half the retreat on foot and swum part of the Tagliamento with his knee.
9 We could avoid the main line of the retreat by keeping to the secondary roads beyond Udine.
10 Last night on the retreat we had heard that there had been many Germans in Italian uniforms mixing with the retreat in the north.
11 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.
12 Before daylight we were stalled again and when it was light we were at a little rise in the ground and I saw the road of the retreat stretched out far ahead, everything stationary except for the infantry filtering through.
13 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.