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A battery is a fortified arrangement of cannons on a battlefield. When the lieutenant sees a battery “swirling” or “sweeping” across the field, he’s watching a group of soldiers wheel these large weapons into combat.
Battery Quotes in An Episode of War
The An Episode of War quotes below are all either spoken by Battery or refer to Battery. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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An Episode of War
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The battery swept in curves that stirred the heart; it made halts as dramatic as the crash of a wave on the rocks, and when it fled onward this aggregation of wheels, levers, motors had a beautiful unity, as if it were a missile. The sound of it was a war chorus that reached into the depths of man’s emotion.
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Battery Term Timeline in An Episode of War
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An Episode of War
...battle while shells explode overhead. The lieutenant pauses to watch a “shining [and] […] swirling” battery make its way across the field. He is struck by the “slant of glistening guns”...
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