He observed with deep regret that they visited the mountains, and valleys, and rivers, and islands, and battlefields, and cathedrals of the land, that to him had been filled with sacred interests by the writings of Scott, and saw them all without emotion.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Outside lay some of the bad cases until the stretcher-bearers carried them down, and others sat on the side of the road or lay at full length there, dog-weary after their long walk from the battlefields.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It was in the afternoon of the first day that the luck of the weather was decided against us and there began those heavy rain-storms which drenched the battlefields in August and made them dreadful for men and beasts.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs