"...long 6.6 mm cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with child."
This quote is one of my absolute favorites. Hemingway describes the many cartridges that they must carry and compares it to the heavy burden that men carry in war at the same time as comparing it to the burden that women have of bearing a child, while he is also at the same time comparing it to new life. This is a great example of one of the major themes: life and death. As it is also a great dichotomy used by Hemingway.
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