With a Field Ambulance at Ypres: Being Letters Written March 7-August 15, 1915George H. Doran Company, 1916 - 110 strán (strany) |
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aeroplane afternoon AMBULANCE AT YPRES ammunition ammunition column anthrax April Armentières artillery Bailleul battery blue Bosche brigade bullets Canadian Cathedral Cloth Hall cloud convoys couple of miles crosses dark days ago dead delightful ditch door dug-outs eyes farm FIELD AMBULANCE fighting firing line front German German lines going Grande Place gunners guns headquarters hear heard Hell Corner Hill 60 horse hour howitzers hung land last night lay Ypres light live look March Menin Gate Menin road morning motor Neuve Chapelle Neuve Eglise o'clock officers party passed Poperinghe quiet reached rifle fire rode roof round ruins salient seemed shattered spires shell burst shell hole shrapnel burst side sight silence soon sound square star-shells stations stretcher bearers Suddenly things tion to-day town trenches village wagons Westminster Abbey whizz-bang whole WILLIAM BOYD wonderful wood wounded Wulverghem yards Ypres salient
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Strana 83 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon It the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Strana 40 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Strana 39 - A hundred yards from the trenches Close to the battle front, There stands a little house Lonely and desolate. Not a man, not a bird, not a dog, not a cat, Only a flight of crows along the railway line, The sound of our boots on the muddy road And along the Yser, the twinkling fires. A low thatched cottage With doors and shutters closed, The roof torn by a shell, Standing out of the floods alone. Not a cry, not a...
Strana 39 - A Voice in the Desert," pictures in words that seem the echoes of the voices of the dead, the awful desolation of the ravaged fields: "A hundred yards from the trenches Close to the battle front, There stands a little house Lonely and desolate. Not a man, not a bird, not a dog, not a cat, Only a flight of crows along the railway line, The sound of our boots on the muddy road And along the Yser, the twinkling fires.
Strana 7 - Written in the kitchens of French farmhouses, in muddy dug-outs, and other unromantic places, and sent home to friends from time to time. In most cases the account was written within twenty-four hours of the events described."-— Preface.
Strana 70 - While the bearers were getting the patient ready I went into the little garden at the back of the aid post. The place had been converted into an English cemetery; there were fifteen or twenty crosses, several of them bearing the names of friends of mine, and five open graves were standing ready waiting for the dead of the day.
Strana 26 - The head injuries were the most frightful, for in some cases the greater part of the face was smashed in by shrapnel, while in others the nose, eye, and greater part of the cheek had been torn away, leaving a great, red, bleeding cavity.
Strana 29 - ... preparing a meal for the men at the end of the march, mules laden with entrenching tools, etc., etc. The men also are hung around with haversacks, mess tins, water bottles, ground sheets, etc., till they look like veritable bagmen.
Strana 14 - For every mound of Flemish earth Shall witness bear, as men go by, That greater things than Life and Death Are Truth and Right, which cannot die.