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It was fairly quiet on our sector .... But on the last day an astonishing number of English field-guns opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position ...
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 4.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
The night crackles electrically, the front thunders like a concert of drums.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 32.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
Someone growls that he will pound Tjaden into bog-myrtle if he doesn't shut up. Then all becomes quiet in the big room - only the candles flickering from the necks of a couple of bottles and the artillerymen spitting every now and then.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 37.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
All one hears is the drummers practising; they... practise brokenly, dully, monotonously.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 40.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
The engines drone, the lorries bump and rattle.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 50.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
The roar of the guns make our lorry stagger, the reverberation rolls raging away to the rear, everything quakes.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 51 - 52.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
You hear the explosion first and afterwards comes the sound of the gun .... But the hollow sound of the firing does not reach us. It is swallowed up in the general murmer of the front .... We all listen.... The shelling can be heard distinctly.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 52.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
Three shells land beside us. The burst of flame shoots across the fog, the fragments howl and drone.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p.52.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
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