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From the Abyss to the Foreign Legion choose

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[UK] T. Victor From the Abyss to the Foreign Legion 216: In my company—his like will be found in any army and in every regiment—we had a man who seemed to smell where grub could be found and ‘annexed’.
at annex, v.
[UK] T. Victor From the Abyss to the Foreign Legion 189: The peaceful villagers tried an attack on our rear. Gosh! We stopped that with cold steel and they got a bellyful.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] T. Victor From the Abyss to the Foreign Legion 199: All these looked upon us Légionnaires with admiring awe and so we ‘threw-a-chest". Why not? It was not often the Legion got the chance.
at chuck the gab (v.) under chuck, v.2
[UK] T. Victor From the Abyss to the Foreign Legion 237: He would beg and pray of me—with tears streaming down his face—to give him just a half glass of water, or all his money (he had two thousand francs) for enough morphine to pass him out.
at pass out (v.) under pass, v.
[UK] T. Victor From the Abyss to the Foreign Legion 102: All that day and night the cry was going round of ‘So and So has died’; ‘He’s gone for his,’ and so on.
at go for one’s tea (v.) under tea, n.
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