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Quotation from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
“The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.”
The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text)
The novel's opening sentence shows the army as one great sleeping creature in early spring, before any individual soldier appears.
Citation: "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting." — Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text). (id the-red-badge-of-courage-q1)
Portrait: TheRedBadgeOfCourage, Stephen Crane, Public domain.
