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" As to destruction of life, it was amazing. Moreover, it was beyond estimate. Of course, we could not count the dead, because they did not exist as individuals, but merely as homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons. No life was in sight,... "
The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted ... - Page 393
by Mark Twain - 1899
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain - 1889 - 494 pages
...itself. No living creature was in sight ! We now perceived that additions had been made to our defences. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet...the field under cover of the wall of smoke ; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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The Review of Reviews, Volume 1

William Thomas Stead - 1890 - 766 pages
...The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet wide, all around us, and cast up an embankment twenty-five feet high on both borders of it. As to...but merely as homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iro n and buttons. I picketed the great embankments thrown up around our lines by the dynamite explosion...
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The Writings of Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

Mark Twain - 1899 - 430 pages
...— narrower still — became a mere ribbon in front of the horses — then disappeared under their hoofs. Great Scott! Why, the whole front of that host...the field under cover of the wall of smoke ; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 16

Mark Twain - 1917 - 426 pages
...— narrower still — became a mere ribbon in front of the horses — then disappeared under their hoofs. Great Scott! Why, the whole front of that host...the field under cover of the wall of smoke ; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain - 1917 - 488 pages
...ensued one of the dullest quarter-hours I had ever endured. We waited in a silent solitude inclosed by our circles of wire, and by a circle of heavy smoke...the field under cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain - 1917 - 490 pages
...ensued one of the dullest quarter-hours I had ever endured. We waited in a silent solitude inclosed by our circles of wire, and by a circle of heavy smoke...homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons. No He was in sight, but necessarily there must have been some wounded in the rear ranks, who were carried...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain - 1917 - 504 pages
...the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself. No living creature was in sight 1 We now perceived that additions had been made to our...the field under cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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The Writings of Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

Mark Twain - 1917 - 480 pages
...the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself. No living creature was in sight f We now perceived that additions had been made to our...the field under cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain - 2005 - 338 pages
...destruction of life, it was amazing. Moreover, it was beyond estimate. Of course we could not countlhe dead, because they did not exist as individuals, but...the field under cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others — there always is, after an episode like that. But there would...
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The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War

Daniel Aaron - 1987 - 430 pages
...(as Mark Twain says of the smashed and exploded squadrons of Merlin), the dead could not be counted because "they did not exist as individuals, but merely...homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons." The chivalry of medieval Britain and of nineteenth-century America were both swept away by the machine...
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