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“intervals”
― Boyd Cable, Grapes of Wrath

“Here surely in these broken dead, in the silent, dejected prisoners, in the very earth she had seized and that now had been wrested from her, was Germany's vintage, the tramplings out of the grapes of a wrath long stored, the smitten of the swift sword that flashed unloosed at last in the gun-fire lightning at play across the sky.”
― Boyd Cable, Grapes of Wrath

“On one occasion, for instance, when his position had been " spotted" by enemy sharp-shooters, he got a bullet through his cap, one through his shoulder-strap, one through the inside of his sleeve close to his heart, and fifty-three others near enough for him to hear them pass—all in less than an hour.”
― Boyd Cable, Grapes of Wrath

“Fust time I've been glad o' a tin o' bully,'' he shouted, exhibiting a flattened tin of preserved meat. "But I s'pose it was the biscuits that was really the shell-proof bit.”
― Boyd Cable, Grapes of Wrath

“she is to be made to pay to the last bitter squeezing of the grapes of wrath for the blood and misery she plunged Europe into. Theh will be no mercy fo' heh.”
― Boyd Cable, Grapes of Wrath