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Quotes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1 I had not realized it was so broken up.
2 The plaster of the broken houses was gray and wet.
3 The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
4 They did not attack that night but we heard that they had broken through to the north.
5 We heard that Germans and Austrians had broken through in the north and were coming down the mountain valleys toward Cividale and Udine.
6 I watched the sudden round puffs of shrapnel smoke in the sky above a broken farmhouse near where the line was; soft puffs with a yellow white flash in the centre.
7 I asked about the break through and he said that he had heard at the Brigade that the Austrians had broken through the twenty-seventh army corps up toward Caporetto.
8 Passing where the shells had landed I avoided the small broken places and smelled the high explosive and the smell of blasted clay and stone and freshly shattered flint.
9 There were many iron shrapnel balls in the rubble of the houses and on the road beside the broken house where the post was, but they did not shell near the post that afternoon.
10 The forest had been green in the summer when we had come into the town but now there were the stumps and the broken trunks and the ground torn up, and one day at the end of the fall when I was out where the oak forest had been I saw a cloud coming over the mountain.