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I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh - then there was flash, as a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind.... In the jolt of my head I heard somebody crying. I thought somebody was screaming. I tried to move but I could not move. I heard the machine-guns and rifles firing across the river and all along the river. There was a great splashing and I saw the star-shells go up and burst and float whitely and rockets going up and heard bombs, all this in a moment, and then I heard close to me someone saying, "Mamma mia! Oh, mamma mia!".
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms, England, Penguin Books Ltd., 1929, p. 47.
PLACE: Italian Alps
TIME: 1st World War
CIRCUMSTANCE: Attack of the Austrians
There was much shelling and many rockets in the rain and machine-gun and rifle fire all along the line.... Guns were firing from the field behind the village and the shells going away had a comfortable sound.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms. England, Penguin Books Ltd., 1929, p. 145.
PLACE: Italian Alps
TIME: 1st World War
CIRCUMSTANCE: Attack of the Austrians
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