rifle-swept

Updated: July 13, 2026

The implicit assumption of this complaint would cover the engineers of an ironclad or the guides of a night attack, everybody, in fact, who was not positively weapon in hand. Experiments will probably be made in the direction of armoured guns, armoured search-light carriages, and armoured shelters for men, that will admit of being pushed forward over rifle-swept ground.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Anticipations : Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought