Sentences with phrase «temporary use of their arms»

The rest are simply «dead men with temporary use of their arms and legs,» explains one of the riflemen, and in Fuller's clear - eyed portrait of combat, the only glory in war is survival.

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But Tracey was unashamedly her mother's aspiration and avatar, her only joy, in those thrilling yellow bows, a frou - frou skirt of many ruffles and a crop top revealing inches of childish nut - brown belly, and as we pressed up against the pair of them in this bottleneck of mothers and daughters entering the church I watched with interest as Tracey's mother pushed the girl in front of herself - and in front of us - using her own body as a means of obstruction, the flesh on her arms swinging as she beat us back, until she arrived in Miss Isabel's dance class, a look of great pride and anxiety on her face, ready to place her precious cargo into the temporary care of others.