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At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
They were going to look at war, the red animal — war, the blood-swollen god. And they were deeply engrossed in this march.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)