The Red Badge of Courage-Chapters 13-19. This quiz closes on Monday, 2-25-2013.
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A sputtering of musketry was always to be heard. Later, the cannon had entered the dispute. In the fog-filled air their voices made a thudding sound. The reverberations were continual. This part of the world led a strange, battleful existence
The youth leaned his breast against the brown dirt and peered over at the woods and up and down the line.
The youth wished to launch a joke--a quotation from newspapers. He desired to say, "All quiet on the Rappahannock," but the guns refused to permit even a comment upon their uproar. He never successfully concluded the sentence.
The men were disheartened and began to mutter. They made gestures expressive of the sentence: "Ah, what more can we do?" And it could always be seen that they were bewildered by the alleged news and could not fully comprehend a defeat.
His friend, recently aroused, was still very drowsy. He looked behind him until his mind took in the meaning of the movement. Then he sighed. "Oh, well, I s'pose we got licked," he remarked sadly.
"Mebbe, it wa'n't all his fault--not all together. He did th' best he knowed. It's our luck t' git licked often," said his friend in a weary tone. He was trudging along with stooped shoulders and shifting eyes like a man who has been caned and kicked.
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Omen
Brindle
Docile
Spectral
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Sagacious
Invulnerable
Ethical
Serene
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Spectral
Docile
Sagacious
Spectral
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Derision
Omen
Ardor
Ethical
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Ridicule
Derision
Declamation
Omen
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Skirmish
Annihilate
Intrenchment
Sagacious
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Sagacious
Impregnable
Intrenchment
Invulnerable
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Impregnable
Sagacious
Invulnerable
Serene
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