Thus it goes on day after day.

I have not with my own eyes seen a Frenchman or an Englishman unless he was a prisoner.

It is not so much pleasure--fighting like this." I might have told the young Bavarian lieutenant of other places where I had been--places where the dead lay for days unburied.

I might have told him there was nothing particularly pretty or particularly edifying about the process of being killed.

Death, I take it, is never a very tidy proceeding; but in battle it acquires an added unkemptness.