42 Words to use with drill

"No doubt, some civilian occupations are very useful," said the author of an old drill-book; I think it was Lord Wolseley, and it was a large admission for any officer to have made.

Such rivalry to best master the manual, to hold the most soldierly stature in the ranks, to detect the drill-sergeant when, to test their attention, he gave a false command!

I have seen far more excitement displayed on an ordinary drill-ground at home, in the piping times of peace.

A drill manual for improving speech.

And then I added, "Perhaps the story you have told me will give me greater patience with our drill-master.

Troops under arms will salute us prescribed in drill regulations.

SEE Benz, H. E. Geometry rapid drill cards.

Now there's going to be a great exhibition military drill for girls held in Philadelphia the last week in August and each county is to send its prize drill company.

Just wait until we beat them out in the drill contest!

SEE Byrum, Russell R. 1000 Bible drill questions.

In the summer of 1786 he records: "Having fixed a Roller to the tale of my drill plow, & a brush between it and the barrel, I sent it to Muddy Hole & sowed turnips in the intervals of corn."

And in the locomotive shops I found women working on drill-press machines with ease and skill.

Levuka isn't the spot where a man can pick and choose, so I wiped the shell grit from my drill suit and told myself that I had better accept the berth instead of waiting in expectation of something better turning up.

His portly figure was clothed in a blue dress-coat with brass buttons, a buff waistcoat which permitted his frilled shirt front to become erectile above it, a black satin stock which confined a boyish turned-down collar around his full neck, and immaculate drill trousers, strapped over varnished boots.

It was near the end of the drill-season, the Corps was up to its full strength, all the Officers were in the stationexcept Captain Ross-Ellison and the Adjutant.

Chapter drill number 3.

They walked about, each man a law unto himself, or stood fast until pushed in the desired direction by blasphemous drill-corporals.

NM: new drill material.

We British Gunners spent our first Italian summer in khaki drill tunics and shorts and Australian "smasher hats."

The drill-turner needs a lot of faith and a little nerve, because one blow of the double-jack may break a hand clasped just below the head of the drill.

Better to look up to a whole galaxy of stars, and to live under a baker's dozen of stripes, than to dwell in perpetual fear of choosing between the calaboose and the drill-room of the Louisiana Zouaves.

But there is yet another bondage, just as binding and far more widespread, which nobody ever seems to mention, namely, the drill habit.

In 1860 the Wide Awakes used this place for a drill hall, and so proficient did the members become that many of them were enabled to take charge of squads, companies and even regiments in the great struggle that was soon to follow.

"From four to ten p.m. (except on drill nights)

The ponderous pilum, and the heavy, straight sword of the infantry were exchanged in the barrack-yard for drill-weapons of twice their weight; and so perfectly were the detail and regularity of actual service carried out in their daily discipline, that, as an ancient writer has remarked, their sham-fights and reviews differed only in bloodshed from real battles.

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