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Quotes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Our troops were still in the attacking positions.
2 They must have gotten some troops along the road.
3 "Abandoned his troops, ordered to be shot," he said.
4 We did not see any troops; only abandoned trucks and stores.
5 Rinaldi said that the French had mutinied and troops marched on Paris.
6 We were going along the side of a road crowded with vehicles and troops.
7 The column of vehicles did not move but the troops kept passing alongside.
8 We were supposed to attack too, but they had not brought up any new troops so he thought that was off too.
9 The column did not move, although, on the other side beyond the stalled vehicles I could see the troops moving.
10 Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors.
11 We were in the war now but I thought it would take a year to get any great amount of troops over and train them for combat.
12 In the dark and the rain, making our way along the side of the road I could see that many of the troops still had their rifles.
13 As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street.
14 They were going to put over another bridge when the bombardment started and some troops were to cross at the shallows up above at the bend of the river.
15 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.
16 In the night, going slowly along the crowded roads we passed troops marching under the rain, guns, horses pulling wagons, mules, motor trucks, all moving away from the front.
17 The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.
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