But I see you're not standing in a bleedin' shadow, Perks, nor have you done anything to change your bleedin' shape, you're silhouetted against the bleedin' light and your sabre's shining like a diamond in a chimney-sweep's bleedin' ear'ole! Explain! ""It's because of the one C, sarge! " said Polly, still staring straight ahead. "And that is?" "Colour, sarge! I'm wearing bleedin' red and white in a bleedin' grey forest, sarge! .Terry Pratchett
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The Battle of the Somme was a battle fought by British and French armies on the Western Front of World War I. It was one of the most disastrous battles of the war, with over 1 million casualties on both sides. William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land" is an eerie, dark fantasy novel about a future Earth that has been ravaged by environmental disaster to such a degree that humans now live as pale, ghostlike creatures.
Source: Monstrous Regiment
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