The Confederates hung on their rear, riddling their ranks with shot and shell.

Almost at the same moment the Dunkerque poured in a broadside, riddling the Alcide with balls."

Along this line where we stood outside the village they stopped; and to stop is to set the spades going to begin the defences which, later, had risen to a man's height, and with rifles and machine-guns had riddled the German counter-attack.

" The danger had become great; perhaps there was but one Whitworth over there, but the marksman would at once tell the skirmishers where we were posted; then we should be a target for their whole line, and at three hundred yards their Enfields could riddle our sand-bags and make us lie low.

The arguments of the Jewish theology are cleverly presented, while the swift, sure sense of justice in the sufferer pierces all sophisms, and riddles all pious conventionalities.

Along this line where we stood outside the village they stopped; and to stop is to set the spades going to begin the defences which, later, had risen to a man's height, and with rifles and machine-guns had riddled the German counter-attack.

The first charge riddled the dog.

When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate.

The Spaniards had an enormous stock of munitions of warmodern German guns enough to have riddled the fleet of American cruisersand why did they not have torpedoes?

The fine grass spread like a carpet beneath the trees, and the sun, riddling the foliage, embroidered this carpet with a rosaceous pattern in gold.

On this night, although I thought I had put my clothes out of reach, both the termites and the carregadores ants got at them, ate holes in one boot, ate one leg of my drawers, and riddled my handkerchief; and I now had nothing to replace anything that was destroyed.

If it were a matter of islands and ocean bays, I would have long ago riddled out the heart of it.

Imagine it, you men who were not there, you men of the New Armies still training at home, you riflemen practicing and striving to work up the number of aimed rounds fired in "the mad minute," you machine-gunners riddling holes in a target or a row of posts.

The reference is to the sonnet to Barry Cornwall in the London Magazine for September, 1820, beginning Let hate, or grosser heats, their foulness mask Neath riddling Junius, or in Le's name.

He hath turned A bitter knave of late, and lost his mirth, And mutters riddling warnings and wild tales Of the great days of heathen Rome; and prates Of peace, and liberty, and equal law, And mild philosophy, to us the knights And warriors of this warlike age, who rule By the bright law of arms.

To-day they stopped the old Comptesse du Quesne and her jewels, at the Barrière; to-morrow, with their long needles, they riddled a package of lace destined for the Duchess of X. herself; the Secret Service was doubled; and to crown all, a splendid new star of the testy Prince de Ligne was examined and proclaimed to be paste,

No, force is necessary, but it must not be destructive of life or propertyor, by heaven, I'd drive up there and riddle the place with a fourteen-inch gun," exclaimed O'Connor.

This is another of those secret arrangements which have riddled the 'Fourteen Points' and are wrecking a just peace.

Great holes, made by the feet of the enormous pachyderms, riddled a soil softened during the rainy season.

His opponents, Atkinson and Hall, had not a tithe of his emotional power, but their facts and figures riddled his fine speeches.

Jackson pointed out some of his most remarkable men to me; after which we went up to a little plot of ground behind the workhouse, where we found a few apparently older or weaker men, riddling pebbly stuff, brought from the bed of the Ribble.

say, why this is, That with the anguish of death itself Thou minglest all thy blisses? "Oh beauteous Sphinx, oh, answer me, That riddle strange unloosing!

A perfect hail of rifle-fire riddled the air all about him, but still he labored with sweat streaming down his face all blackened with dirt and cement.

He hath turned A bitter knave of late, and lost his mirth, And mutters riddling warnings and wild tales Of the great days of heathen Rome; and prates Of peace, and liberty, and equal law, And mild philosophy, to us the knights And warriors of this warlike age, who rule By the bright law of arms.