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Then he had followed the girl, trying to make love to her.
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"Damn those German gunners" said the officer.
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He's always a gloomy bastard.
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"Damn them!" he said.
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"Damn the war!
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Damn all dirty dogs who smash up life!"
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"Damn silly," I said.
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"It would be damn silly," said a staff officer.
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Boys who afterward went forward to the fighting-fields and stepped across the line to the world of ghosts carved their names on wooden beams, and on the whitewashed walls scribbled legends proclaiming that Private John Johnson was a bastard; or that a certain battalion was a rabble of ruffians; or that Kaiser Bill would die on the gallows, illustrating those remarks with portraits and allegorical devices, sketchily drawn, but vivid and significant.
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"The whole damn thing will come down on my head at any time.
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A sturdy girl with a brown throat showing through an open bodice munched an apple, like Audrey in "As You Like It," and between her bites told me that she had had a brother killed in the war, and that she had been nearly killed herself, a week ago, by shells that came bursting all round her as she was tying up her sheaves (she pointed to great holes in the field), and described the coming of the Germans into her village over there, when she had lied to some Uhlans about the whereabouts of French soldiers and had given one of those fat Germans a blow on the face when he had tried to make love to her in her father's barn.
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The hit of the evening was when an Australian behind the stage gave an unexpected imitation of a laughing-jackass.
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They were kind-hearted little sluts with astounding courage.
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("I don't care a damn about death.")
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"Not a damn thing to be seen."
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They organized their publicity side in the same masterful way, and were determined that what Canada did the world should know--and damn all censorship.
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They had done "damn well," as one of them remarked; and they were out of the shell-fire which ravaged the ground they had taken, where other men lay.
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They wanted to make the best of it--and damn the price.
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They agreed that she was fat and ugly, like all German women, and a foul slut.
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I drank of the flowing cup--une bouteille de champagne--and I met a maiden as ugly as sin, but beautiful in my eyes after Pozieres--you understand--and accompanied her to her poor lodging--in a most verminous place, sir--where we discoursed upon the problems of life and love.
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It seems to me God is above all the squabbles of humanity--doesn't care a damn about them!--but the human soul can get into touch with the infinite and the ideal, even while he is doing butcher's work, and beastliness.
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"You don't care a damn about the patients so long as you have all the beds tidy by the time the doctor comes around.
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"I don't care a damn for death; but it's the waiting for it, the devilishness of its uncertainty, the sight of one's pals blown to bits about one, and the animal fear under shell-fire, that break one's pluck... My nerves are like fiddle-strings."
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Some damn fool reports 'Boches.'
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Cocky fellows claiming impossible achievements.
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XXI The name (that "blood-bath") and the news of battle could not be hidden from the people of Germany, who had already been chilled with horror by the losses at Verdun, nor from the soldiers of reserve regiments quartered in French and Belgian towns like Valenciennes, St. Quentin, Cambrai, Lille, Bruges, and as far back as Brussels, waiting to go to the front, nor from the civil population of those towns, held for two years by their enemy--these blond young men who lived in their houses, marched down their streets, and made love to their women.
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("I don't care a damn for death!")
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"Damn their optimism!" said some of our officers.
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He had made love to her even before Charlie was "done in."
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But they came back into villages or towns where they were tempted by any poor slut who winked at them and infected them with illness.