The Men's Room Bible

All the officers and men of Denisov's squadron, though they tried to talk of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy's troops.
The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it.
It was calm, and at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard from the hill.