The men looked at him and pressed to the bank, hesitating to step onto the ice.

The general on horseback at the entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address Dolokhov.

Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that everyone ducked.

It flopped into something moist, and the general fell from his horse in a pool of blood.

Nobody gave him a look or thought of raising him.