Young officers of ours lived within these ruins wondering whether it would be this day or next, now, as they spoke, or in the silence that followed, that some beastly shell would burst through and tear down the kirchner prints which they had pinned to broken timbers, and smash the bits of mirror they used for shaving-glasses and lay them out in the wreckage.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
"I shall never cease to regret kirchner," said Thessaly.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
I shall let kirchner and Eschmann know.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)