The trenches left were each time occupied by a white regiment.

In the western area of the theater of war, in France and Flanders, where whole armies were deadlocked, facing each other for weeks without shifting their position an inch, such trenches become an elaborate affair, with extensive underground working and wing connections of lines which almost constitute little fortresses and afford a certain measure of comfort.

A trench is a wonderful contrivance.

The fire trench had become an untenable dust-heap.

This trench was 15 ft. to 20 ft. broad at the top, and of course had to be crossed by the before mentioned line of pipes; and although the trench was filled with puddle, and the gullet cut in the rock already mentioned for carrying the pipes under the site of the dam was "padded" with a layer of 12 in.

At some points a trench becomes practically a breastwork, as its wall is raised to get free of the mud and water.

This trench was only an introduction, a preparation for a thing which was about as real as ever fell to the lot of any soldiers.

After all, a trench is a pretty narrow ribbon, even on a gunner's large scale map, to hit.

But the grain-bags were open toward the wharf, and the wharf was what he was aiming at, and a plank blown through youNo, the trench was the thing, butQuick, he is overhead!

The trenches are the Germans' goal; these and the British batteries once taken, the road into Ypres is clear.

The trenches, a quarry of prisoners, and the thrill of high praise from the general were theirsa triumph with a bitter taste, for some, creeping back, had found their young lieutenant crumpled where he fell, the moonlight cold upon his blood-stained face.

These communicating trenches are usually zigzag or traversed to prevent their being swept by hostile fire.

The enemy still held to his positions to the right of his centre, and from the Atawineh Redoubt, Tank Redoubt, and Beer trenches there was considerable shelling of Gaza and the Ali Muntar ridge throughout the day.

I asked her if Mr. Trench was Miss Garnons' anchor too?

Trenching is the process of digging deep, so as to loosen and expose the soil as much as possible to the action of the air.