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TELESCOPIC WALKING STICK : deafening roar, enveloping the whole neighborhood in powder smoke. In contrast with the dread felt by the infantrymen placed in support, here in the battery where a telescopic walking stick number of men busy at their work were separated from the rest telescopic walking stick a trench, everyone experienced a common telescopic walking stick as it were family feeling of telescopic walking stick The intrusion telescopic walking stick Pierre's nonmilitary figure in a white hat made an unpleasant impression at first. The soldiers looked askance at him with surprise and even alarm as they went past him. The senior artillery officer, a tall, long-legged, pockmarked man, moved over to Pierre as if to see the action of the farthest gun and looked at him with curiosity. A young round-faced officer, quite a boy still and evidently only just out of the Cadet College, who was zealously commanding the two guns
TELESCOPIC WALKING STICK : entrusted to him, addressed Pierre sternly. "Sir," he said, "permit me to ask you to stand aside. You must not be here." The soldiers shook their heads disapprovingly as they looked at Pierre. But when they had convinced themselves that this man in telescopic walking stick white hat was doing no harm, but either sat quietly on the slope of the trench with a shy smile or, politely making way for the soldiers, paced up and down the battery under fire as calmly telescopic walking stick if he were telescopic walking stick a boulevard, their feeling of hostile distrust gradually began to change into a kindly and bantering sympathy, such as soldiers feel for their dogs, cocks, goats, and in general for the animals that live with the regiment. telescopic walking stick men soon accepted Pierre into telescopic walking stick family, adopted him, gave him a nickname ("our gentleman"), and
TELESCOPIC WALKING STICK : made kindly fun of him among telescopic walking stick A shell tore up the earth two paces from Pierre and he looked around with a smile as he brushed from his clothes some earth it had thrown up. "And how's it you're telescopic walking stick afraid, sir, really now?" a red-faced, broad-shouldered soldier asked Pierre, with a grin that disclosed a set of sound, white teeth. "Are you afraid, then?" said Pierre. "What else do you expect?" answered the soldier. "She telescopic walking stick no mercy, you telescopic walking stick When she comes spluttering down, out go your innards. One can't help being afraid," he said laughing. Several of the men, with bright kindly telescopic walking stick stopped beside Pierre. They seemed not to have expected him to talk like anybody else, and the discovery that he did so delighted them. "It's the business of us soldiers. But in a
TELESCOPIC WALKING STICK : gentleman it's wonderful! There's a gentleman for telescopic walking stick "To your places!" cried the young officer to the men gathered round Pierre. The young officer was evidently telescopic walking stick his duties for the first or second time and therefore treated both his superiors and the men with great precision and formality. The booming cannonade and the fusillade of musketry were growing more intense over the whole field, especially to the left where Bagration's fleches were, telescopic walking stick where Pierre was the smoke of the firing made it almost impossible to distinguish anything. Moreover, his whole attention was engrossed by watching the family circle- separated from all else- formed by the men in the battery. His first unconscious feeling of joyful animation produced by the sights and sounds of the battlefield telescopic walking stick now telescopic walking stick by another, especially since he had seen that soldier lying
TELESCOPIC WALKING STICK : alone in the hayfield. Now, seated on the slope of the trench, he observed the faces of those around him. By ten o'clock some twenty men had already telescopic walking stick carried away from the battery; two guns were smashed and cannon balls fell more and more frequently on the battery and spent bullets telescopic walking stick and whistled around. But the men in the battery seemed not to notice this, and merry telescopic walking stick and jokes were heard on all sides. "A live one!" shouted a man as a whistling shell approached. "Not this way! To the infantry!" added another telescopic walking stick loud laughter, seeing the shell fly past and fall into the ranks of the supports. "Are you bowing to a friend, eh?" remarked another, chaffing a peasant who ducked low as a cannon ball flew over. Several soldiers gathered telescopic walking stick the wall of
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