It shows that if they were to depress their fire they would be shearing limbs off of us instead of boughs off the trees." The sun was high and brilliant now, but it could not dispel the clouds of smoke gathering in the thickets.

It floated everywhere, and Dick felt it stinging his mouth and throat.

Murmurs began to run along the lines.
They did not like being held there.

They wanted to charge again.

They were still confident of victory.
Dick was sent toward another part of the army for orders, and he saw that all along the hill the battle was raging fiercely.