There was but one pair of eyes in the corps.

He would step forth and make a speech.
Shrill and passionate words came to his lips.
The line, broken into moving fragments by the ground, went calmly on through fields and woods.

The youth looked at the men nearest him, and saw, for the most part, expressions of deep interest, as if they were investigating something that had fascinated them.

One or two stepped with overvaliant airs as if they were already plunged into war.

Others walked as upon thin ice.