`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

The conflict has been compared to World War I in terms of the tactics used, including large scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across trenches, manned machine-gun posts, bayonet charges, human wave attacks across a no-man's land, and extensive use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas by the Iraqi government against Iranian troops, civilians, and Iraqi Kurds.

After World War I, Trento and its Italian-speaking province, along with Bolzano ( Bozen ) and the part of Tyrol that stretched south of the Alpine watershed ( which was, in the main, German speaking ), were annexed by Italy.

Attrition was time-consuming so the duration of World War I battles often stretched to weeks and months.

His service to Edward I of England stretched over a long period of time, starting in the Welsh Wars of 1282 – 83, in which he participated with a substantial contingent.

The original borders of the area known as East Williston, stretched west towards Queens to Herricks Road ; north to I. U. Willets Road ; south to the Village of Mineola ; and east to Bacon Road in Old Westbury.

" Holmes also criticized past decisions of the Court in this regard, stating that " I confess that I think that the right to make contracts at will that has been derived from the word liberty in the amendments has been stretched to its extreme by the decisions ".

Trench warfare and tactics evolved further in the Crimean War and World War I, until systems of extensive main trenches, backup trenches ( in case the first lines were overrun ) and communication trenches often stretched dozens of kilometres along a front without interruption, and some kilometres further back from the front line.

I heard of one instance of a child, a few months old, being thrown into the feed-box of a wagon, and after being carried some distance, left on the ground to perish ; I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut out the private parts of females and stretched them over their saddle-bows, and some of them over their hats ".

Here and there I have stretched an arm and helped you to a ledge, but the work of climbing has been almost exclusively your own.

The front between the Serbian and Bulgarian forces at the time of the 1915 Battle of Ovche Pole in the Serbian Campaign ( World War I ) stretched near to Vranje.

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, or Maas-Argonne Offensive, also called the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire western front.

The army personnel on board, commanded by Hilary Bond and accompanied by an older version of the Time Traveller's friend Filby, take Moses, Nebogipfel, and the Time Traveller to their 1938, where World War I has stretched over twenty-four years due to the discovery of time travel which was influenced by the latter's work.

For Emperor Darius I The Great of Persia ( 522 BC – 485 BC ), the Greek Mandrocles of Samos once engineered a pontoon bridge that stretched across the Bosporus, linking Asia to Europe, so that Darius could pursue the fleeing Scythians as well as move his army into position in the Balkans to overwhelm Macedon.

And when the president asked him if the " honourable person " had named Dreyfus, Henry stretched out his hand toward the crucifix and declared, " I swear it!

During World War I submarine nets were stretched across the harbor from this point.

He realizes from the moment of his " birth " that even his own creator could not be around him ; this is obvious when Frankenstein says "… one hand was stretched out, seeming to detain me, but I escaped …" Upon seeing his own reflection, he realizes that he too cannot stand to see himself.

In this manner I have heard them in a living tree – on a sheet of glass – on a stretched iron wire – on a stretched membrane – a tambourine – on the roof of a cab – and on the floor of a theatre.

Nay, I have nourished it, and I have digged about it, and I have pruned it, and I have dunged it ; and I have stretched forth mine hand almost all the day long, and the end draweth nigh.