We're set.
I've got ready to move eight times in the last two weeks, and we ain't moved yet." The tall soldier felt called upon to defend the truth of a rumor he himself had introduced.

He and the loud one came near to fighting over it.
A corporal began to swear before the assemblage.

He had just put a costly board floor in his house, he said.

During the early spring he had refrained from adding extensively to the comfort of his environment because he had felt that the army might start on the march at any moment.

Of late, however, he had been impressed that they were in a sort of eternal camp.
Many of the men engaged in a spirited debate.