For several nights, with the object of giving the enemy the impression of a nightly strafe, there had been artillery and machine-gun demonstrations occurring about the same time and lasting as long as those planned for the night of the crossing.

Orders were that not a shot was to be fired except by the guns and machine guns making their nightly strafe.

They are only "strafing" Fritz or making ready to "strafe" him; they have had an excellent midday meal in the huts yonder, and they whistle and sing as they go about their work, disappearing sometimes into mysterious regions out of sight.

They are only "strafing" Fritz or making ready to "strafe" him; they have had an excellent midday meal in the huts yonder, and they whistle and sing as they go about their work, disappearing sometimes into mysterious regions out of sight.

When I remembered the treatment that I saw our sick and wounded prisoners in Germany get from the Hun doctor, I was often furious, and determined to do a bit of "strafing" on my own.

The G.O.C. is strafing horribly to know.

If they are strafing all along the line, inspect Transport.

And as I realized that probably this was just a part of the regular day's work, a bit of ordinary strafing, and not a feature of a grand attack, I took note of the rhythm.

I thought, "Why not make a cellar, and thus have a place to dive into when the strafing begins."

"If the Huns' minds work on the fixed and appointed path, one would expect the same old field will get a strafing this afternoon," said the captain afterwards.

Betty Carnes (W); 15Sep71; R511848. Selections from American guerrilla: planes strafe cliff-trapped raiders, by Douglas M. Smith & Cecil Carnes.

I have heard the monkeys strafing

He was not the "strafing" kind.

It shared honours with strafe.

Strafe that sign at the corner!

I will strafe the chicken!"

'Gott strafe England!'

Strafe has become a noun, a verb, an adjective, a cussword, and a term of greeting.

Soldier asks soldier how he is strafing to-day.

"Won't you strafe a little for us?"

" Nevertheless, I slept, my last recollection that of sniping shots, to be awakened with the first streaks of day by the sound of a fusilladethe "morning hate" or the "morning strafe" as it is called.

Had the Germans succeeded in "strafing" us out of it yet?

The German gunners were "strafing" in a very lively way this afternoon.

They were giving the communication trench a turn at "strafing," now, and shells were urgently dropping behind us.

Psychologists take notice; and golfers are reminded that their favourite expletives when they foozle will come perfectly natural to them when the Germans are "strafing.