The human back can become the seat of more aches and pains than are registered in books for the composite anatomy of a regiment. - Stephen Crane

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

She thinks my name is Freddie, you know, but of course it ain't. I
always tell these people some name like that, because if they got onto
your right name they might use it sometime. Understand?

He reflected that when one gets properly wearied, drowning must really be a comfortable arrangement, a cessation of hostilities accompanied by a large degree of relief, and he was glad of it, for the main thing in his mind for some months had been horror of the temporary agony. He did not wish to be hurt.