Answer:1. Comparing beggars to the way they sleep at night.
2 Knock kneed the way they their legs had began to stay after standing so long.
3.Coughing like hags, coughing from all the dust and smoke like an elderly person.
4. Cursed through sludge, they had to probably get dirty and possibly got stuck at times
5. Many had lost their boots, many probably had worn out shoes or lost limbs and still chose to go on and fight.
6.Drunk with fatigue ,deaf to hoots. They are barley standing due to tiredness but they keep going, deaf to the sounds of war, explosions and all.
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