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SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


256.

The body is ... perfectly still, without sound, the gurgle has ceased, but the eyes cry out, yell, all the life is gathered together in them for one tremendous effort to flee...

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 222.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)

 

257.

Suddenly there is a crash in the drawing-room, and an iron stove hurtles through the wall ... opposite where a shell just landed.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 234.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)

 

258.

One of them sings hymns in a high cracked tenor before he begins to gurgle.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 246.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)

 

259.

Up here in the corridor every morning the sisters say prayers .... And so that you can get your share, they leave the door open.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 253.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)

 

260.

The bandages are stuck fast. We bellow like steers.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 256.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)

 

261.

Our only comfort is the steady breathing of our comrades ...

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 272.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)

 

262.

He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front that the army report confined itself to a single sentence; All quiet on the Western Front.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 291.

PLACE: Europe

TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)


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