Total sentences count: 176
#31 | T: 106 | I: 20 | [ he sits down to eat as thin as a grasshopper and gets up as big as a bug in the family way ; haie westhus , of the same age , a peat digger , who can easily hold a ration loaf in his hand and say guess what i ve got in my fist ; then detering , a peasant , who thinks of nothing but his farm yard and his wife ; and finally stanislaus katczinsky , the leader of our group , shrewd , cunning , and hard bitten , forty years of age , with a face of the soil , blue eyes , bent shoulders , and a remarkable nose for dirty weather , good food , and soft jobs . ]
#26 | T: 61 | I: 8 | [ at the head of the queue of course were the hungriest little albert kropp , the clearest thinker among us and therefore only a lance corporal ; müller , who still carries his school textbooks with him , dreams of examinations , and during a bombardment mutters propositions in physics ; leer , who wears a full beard and has a preference for the girls from officers brothels . ]
#174 | T: 42 | I: 4 | [ and perhaps more of us thought as he did , but no one could very well stand out , because at that time even one s parents were ready with the word coward ; no one had the vaguest idea what we were in for . ]
#120 | T: 39 | I: 2 | [ we might perhaps have paid no particular attention to them had they not figured so large in our experience , nor been such novelties to our minds to the old hands they had long been a mere matter of course . ]
#22 | T: 38 | I: 1 | [ last night we moved back and settled down to get a good sleep for once katczinsky is right when he says it would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little more sleep . ]
#20 | T: 34 | I: 2 | [ it was fairly quiet on our sector , so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men . ]
#21 | T: 34 | I: 3 | [ but on the last day an astonishing number of english heavies opened up on us with high explosive , drumming ceaselessly on our position , so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong . ]
#114 | T: 33 | I: 3 | [ there were no doors and twenty men sat side by side as in a railway carriage , so that they could be reviewed all at one glance , for soldiers must always be under supervision . ]
#176 | T: 33 | I: 4 | [ they knew the war to be a misfortune , whereas those who were better off , and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be , were beside themselves with joy . ]
#100 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ and as if to show that all things were equal to him , of his own free will he issued in addition half a pound of synthetic honey to each man . ]
#122 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ three quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions , and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation . ]
#126 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ more than that , they are so much a matter of course that their comfortable performance is fully as much enjoyed as the playing of a safe top running flush . ]
#7 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ the cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat ; he beckons with his ladle to every one that passes , and spoons him out a great dollop . ]
#27 | T: 27 | I: 1 | [ he swears that they are obliged by an army order to wear silk chemises and to bathe before entertaining guests of the rank of captain and upwards . ]
#77 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ under shellfire he wouldn t bring his kitchen up near enough , so that our soup carriers had to go much farther than those of the other companies . ]
#168 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ i can see him now , as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice won t you join up , comrades ? ]
#76 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ no one felt kindly toward him , for it was his fault that the food often came up to us in the line too late and cold . ]
#79 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ he is as fat as a hamster in winter , but he trundles his pots when it comes to that right up to the very front line . ]
#147 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ one of us will say well , boys .... or it was a near thing that time .... and for a moment we fall silent . ]
#167 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ during drill time kantorek gave us long lectures until the whole of our class went , under his shepherding , to the district commandant and volunteered . ]
#80 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ we were in just the right mood , and there would certainly have been a dust up if our company commander had not appeared . ]
#150 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ it might easily have happened that we should not be sitting here on our boxes to day ; it came damn near to that . ]
#88 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ and he knew many other things too , because he came to the company as a non com , and was promoted from the ranks . ]
#4 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ each man has another mess tin full for the evening ; and , what is more , there is a double ration of sausage and bread . ]
#141 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ we set the lid of the margarine tub on our knees and so have a good table for a game of skat . ]
#136 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ the grasses sway their tall spears ; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the soft warm wind of the late summer . ]
#106 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ but that is for recruits who as yet have not learned how to make the most of whatever comes their way . ]
#25 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ half an hour later every man had his mess tin and we gathered at the cookhouse , which smelt greasy and nourishing . ]
#29 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ and four are nineteen years of age , and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war . ]
#132 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ on the horizon float the bright yellow , sunlit observation balloons , and the many little white clouds of the anti aircraft shells . ]
#49 | T: 21 | I: 5 | [ his sharp , mousy features began to shine , his eyes grew small with cunning , his jaws twitched , and he whispered hoarsely man ! ]
#11 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ where tjaden puts it all is a mystery , for he is and always will be as thin as a rake . ]
#134 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we hear the muffled rumble of the front only as very distant thunder , bumble bees droning by quite drown it . ]
#30 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ close behind us were our friends tjaden , a skinny locksmith of our own age , the biggest eater of the company . ]
#161 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ kantorek had been our schoolmaster , a stern little man in a grey tailcoat , with a face like a shrew mouse . ]
#113 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ i well remembered how embarrassed we were as recruits in barracks when we had to use the general latrine . ]
#23 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ in the line we have had next to none , and fourteen days is a long time at one stretch . ]
#105 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ on the right side of the meadow a large common latrine has been built , a roofed and durable construction . ]
#124 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home , but here it is the universal language . ]
#127 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ not for nothing was the word latrine rumour invented ; these places are the regimental gossip shops and common rooms . ]
#9 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ tjaden and müller have produced two washbasins and had them filled up to the brim as a reserve . ]
#163 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ it is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men . ]
#169 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ these teachers always carry their feelings ready in their waistcoat pockets , and trot them out by the hour . ]
#67 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ i don t care about the stew , but i can only issue rations for eighty men , persisted ginger . ]
#14 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i have exchanged my chewing tobacco with katczinsky for his cigarettes , which means i have forty altogether . ]
#45 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ and i have cooked for one hundred and fifty men kropp poked him in the ribs . ]
#125 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ enforced publicity has in our eyes restored the character of complete innocence to all these things . ]
#128 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white tiled convenience . ]
#99 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ when things get beyond him he throws up the sponge altogether ; he just goes to pieces . ]
#81 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ he informed himself of the dispute , and only remarked yes , we did have heavy losses yesterday . ]
#96 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ and now get on with it , you old blubber sticker , and don t you miscount either . ]
#151 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ and so everything is new and brave , red poppies and good food , cigarettes and summer breeze . ]
#171 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ there was , indeed , one of us who hesitated and did not want to fall into line . ]
#8 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ he does not see how he can empty his stew pot in time for coffee . ]
#165 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i have always taken good care to keep out of sections with small company commanders . ]
#2 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ yesterday we were relieved , and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans . ]
#109 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ they are square , neat boxes with wooden sides all round , and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats . ]
#13 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ ten cigars , twenty cigarettes , and two quids of chew per man ; now that is decent . ]
#12 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ what s more important still is the issue of a double ration of smokes . ]
#115 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties . ]
#118 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i no longer understand why we should always have shied at these things before . ]
#121 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines . ]
#123 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ it is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily . ]
#102 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the mail has come , and almost every man has a few letters and papers . ]
#155 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ müller explains that he has a flesh wound in his thigh ; a good blighty . ]
#173 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but he did allow himself to be persuaded , otherwise he would have been ostracised . ]
#19 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ fourteen days ago we had to go up and relieve the front line . ]
#24 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ it was noon before the first of us crawled out of our quarters . ]
#65 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ eighty men can t have what is meant for a hundred and fifty . ]
#50 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ then you ve got bread for one hundred and fifty men too , eh ? ]
#139 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the wind plays with our hair ; it plays with our words and thoughts . ]
#140 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the three boxes stand in the midst of the glowing , red field poppies . ]
#149 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ we are all sensible of it ; it needs no words to communicate it . ]
#162 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ he was about the same size as corporal himmelstoss , the terror of klosterberg . ]
#6 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we have not had such luck as this for a long time . ]
#32 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook house . ]
#104 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ kropp has the round lid of a margarine tub under his arm . ]
#110 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ on the sides are hand grips enabling one to shift them about . ]
#133 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ often they rise in a sheaf as they follow after an airman . ]
#160 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ müller throws his cigarette away and says i wish he was here . ]
#164 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows . ]
#33 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we were growing impatient , for the cook paid no attention to us . ]
#108 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ scattered about everywhere there are separate , individual boxes for the same purpose . ]
#117 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ here in the open air though , the business is entirely a pleasure . ]
#34 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ finally katczinsky called to him say , heinrich , open up the soup kitchen . ]
#36 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he shook his head sleepily you must all be there first . ]
#42 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they re either in the dressing station or pushing up daisies . ]
#43 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him . ]
#78 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ now bulcke of the first company is a much better fellow . ]
#111 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we move three together in a ring and sit down comfortably . ]
#112 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ and it will be two hours before we get up again . ]
#116 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ in time things far worse than that came easy to us . ]
#138 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we take off our caps and lay them down beside us . ]
#143 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ after every misã re ouverte we have a round of nap . ]
#119 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ they are , in fact , just as natural as eating and drinking . ]
#1 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ one we are at rest five miles behind the front . ]
#16 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it is true we have no right to this windfall . ]
#61 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then ginger stirred himself and said that won t do . ]
#89 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he lifted the lid from the dixie again and sniffed . ]
#90 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then passing on he said bring me a plate full . ]
#95 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ anyone would think the quartermaster s store belonged to him ! ]
#145 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the notes of an accordion float across from the billets . ]
#146 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ often we lay aside the cards and look about us . ]
#148 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there is in each of us a feeling of constraint . ]
#10 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ in tjaden this is voracity , in müller it is foresight . ]
#60 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ each man gets wait a bit yes , practically two issues . ]
#129 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ there it can only be hygienic ; here it is beautiful . ]
#18 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we have only a miscalculation to thank for it . ]
#41 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ they won t be fed by you to day . ]
#103 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we stroll over to the meadow behind the billets . ]
#156 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we decide to go and see him this afternoon . ]
#175 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the wisest were just the poor and simple people . ]
#62 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we got excited and began to crowd around . ]
#70 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ you haven t drawn food for eighty men . ]
#71 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ you ve drawn it for the second company . ]
#93 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ ginger looked sheepish as tjaden danced round him . ]
#170 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but we didn t think of that then . ]
#51 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ the sergeant cook nodded absent minded , and bewildered . ]
#63 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ why won t that do , you old carrot ? ]
#172 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ that was joseph behm , a plump , homely fellow . ]
#5 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that puts a man in fine trim . ]
#35 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ anyone can see the beans are done . ]
#38 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant cook still took no notice . ]
#46 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then for once we ll have enough . ]
#137 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we read letters and newspapers and smoke . ]
#144 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one could sit like this for ever . ]
#158 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kantorek sends you all his best wishes . ]
#39 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ that may do for you , he said . ]
#66 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ we ll soon show you , growled müller . ]
#28 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ and as the fourth , myself , paul baumer . ]
#3 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are satisfied and at peace . ]
#15 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that s enough for a day . ]
#17 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the prussian is not so generous . ]
#37 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden grinned we are all here . ]
#48 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ suddenly a vision came over tjaden . ]
#52 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden seized him by the tunic . ]
#58 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden beamed what a bean feast ! ]
#69 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you might be generous for once . ]
#75 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we began to jostle the fellow . ]
#87 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he knew what we were thinking . ]
#94 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it doesn t cost you anything ! ]
#130 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ these are wonderfully care free hours . ]
#131 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ over us is the blue sky . ]
#135 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ around us stretches the flowery meadow . ]
#142 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp has the cards with him . ]
#152 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp asks anyone seen kemmerich lately ? ]
#166 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they are mostly confounded little martinets . ]
#40 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but where are the others ? ]
#59 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that s all for us ! ]
#73 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ let s have it then . ]
#74 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we are the second company . ]
#82 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he glanced into the dixie . ]
#85 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ cooked with meat and fat . ]
#86 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the lieutenant looked at us . ]
#91 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ serve out all the rations . ]
#92 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we can do with them . ]
#101 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ to day is wonderfully good . ]
#153 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he s up at st . ]
#157 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kropp pulls out a letter . ]
#154 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ joseph s , i tell him . ]
#55 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ tjaden s chaps quivered . ]
#83 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the beans look good . ]
#107 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we want something better . ]
#44 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he was staggered . ]
#54 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ ginger nodded again . ]
#68 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky got angry . ]
#97 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ you be hanged ! ]
#98 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ spat out ginger . ]
#47 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ come on , begin ! ]
#53 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ and sausage ? ]
#56 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ tobacco too ? ]
#64 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ demanded katczinsky . ]
#84 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ ginger nodded . ]
#159 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we laugh . ]
#57 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ yes , everything . ]
#72 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ good . ]
