I have a story that, when they were in a certain part of the line where the trenches were only thirty yards apart (so close indeed that the opposing forces greeted each other by their first names and borrowed one another's wiring tools), the Padre dragged the harmonium into the front line and held service there, and the Germans over the way joined lustily in the hymns.

" It is said that the Arab officers present handed in a joint protest to the Minister of War, asking for the Professor's dismissal, and that Enver Bey's answer was to have them all sent to the front-line trenches.

Instead of putting these men in trenches, their superiors had put them at this 'lost post' and allowed them to suffer the moral effects of a complete, inevitable defeat.

"I have been in the trenches on the slopes of the Argonnes, where officers lie side by side with the men in clay and chalk, unwashed and filthy cut off from the outside world, exposed to continuous fire and thrown entirely upon themselves.

In the trenches, batteries and hospitals there is no doubt, no fear.

French trenches at distances of from thirty to fifty yards, stretched across the land, and between them were wire entanglements and other obstacles.

"In the trenches taken by storm the English dead lie in rows, just like men who had not winced or yielded before the bayonets of the stormers.

His trenches were at least dry while ours were flooded with water.

I went into the front trenches by Dixmude and found them lined half a yard deep with faggots and wood, yet at every step our feet sank into the water and slush.

When darkness fell we had nearly reached the English trenches, but were recalled and spent the night in our trench.

"And when I'm overtherein the trenches, I'll think" "Dorn, listen to this," rang out Anderson.

And soon its whispering would mingle with the babble of the delivered spring as it descended along the trenches to the dry hot lands.

These women were placed before the workmen in the trenches to protect them from the bullets of Berkeley.

" Bacon, who had contracted a disease in the trenches about Jamestown, was very irritable.

This was a very fortunate discovery, as the trenches filled with water so slowly that a full supply could not have been obtained that night, and the horses had been sixty-five hours without water.

A man may look as sick over backing the wrong horse as at losing an only son in the trenches.

When it was attempted to make clear that the lives of their own sons in the trenches were being made more hazardous by their obstinacy, they shook their heads and simply did not believe.

They agreed on this plan of operations: when the French monarch attacked the town, the English guarded the trenches: next day, when the English prince conducted the assault, the French succeeded him in providing for the safety of the assailants.

In the year 1586, when that unfortunate stand was made against the Spaniards before Zutphen, the 22d of September, when he was getting upon the third horse, having had two slain under him before, he was wounded with a musket-shot out of the trenches, which broke the bone of his thigh.

It has very strong walls, and turrets of large polished stones, with no trenches; but the Tartars have demolished the tops of the turrets, and the bulwarks of the walls.

None thought, when sic a strike was called, of hoo those laddies in the trenches wad be affected.

Jock could not stand, before the zero hour came in the trenches, and talk' wi' his mate.

She dug trenches, in order that in after life she might be able to dig well and to work hard.

Also she dug trenches, praying that in the years to come she might be strong and tireless in digging roots; she picked leaves and needles from the fir-trees, praying that her fingers might be nimble in picking berries; and she tore sheets of birch-bark into shreds, dropping the shreds as she walked and asking that her hands might never tire and that she might make neat and fine work of birch-bark.

By night she roams the mountains and practises running, climbing, carrying burdens, and digging trenches, so that she may be expert at digging roots.