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  • The Ypres Salient is possibly the most blood-stained piece of ground in the world.

    The Great Remembrance 1929

  • I think the fact that most people (usually) laugh at The Salient is a good sign, but there’s also a flip side to that.

    your ass. it’s showing. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010

  • The Salient is a long arrowhead of flatland pointing south, between mountain ranges.

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • Other incidents of the tour in the Salient were the gallant voluntary assistance rendered on the 6th July 1915 by Lieut. Smith, 1st North

    A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919 Thomas Owen Marden

  • He read no books on the war, and even the quarter column entitled Salient Points of the Day's War News hardly received a glance from him now.

    The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • "My immediate reaction is to take them at their word," said Greg Friedman, president and cofounder of Private Ocean, a San Francisco Bay-area RIA formerly known as Salient-Friedman Wealth Management.

    InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines 2010

  • The words are included in an 83-page document titled Salient Rulings Of The Chair, a guide to unacceptable remarks by Irish politicians.

    Home 2009

  • The words are included in an 83-page document titled Salient Rulings Of The Chair, a guide to unacceptable remarks by Irish politicians.

    Home 2009

  • The arrival of representatives from Divisions in the "Salient," to instruct in the methods adopted in the recent successful fighting there, left no doubts as to the next move.

    The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 Ralph Bignell Ainsworth

  • After the "Salient," the Armentières trenches were a picnic, and though there is little of historic interest to record concerning the tour, it formed the subject of many conversations and jests when harder times followed.

    The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 Ralph Bignell Ainsworth

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