Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
We shelled and they shelled every day. Snipers sniped and men got killed; but there was no further advance. Things had remained at a standstill since the first week of the landing.
A few hours after the relief was complete orders came up for patrols to go out to see if the enemy had or had not gone back yet. Our artillery, which was not yet strongly represented behind this sector, also began to fire at extreme ranges on the German back area east of Marchélepot and Chaulnes. The enemy, on his part, sniped at and bombed our patrols at night.
His fatalistic contempt of danger took him into the trenches wherever shelling was hottest; and it is difficult to imagine how he escaped being sniped at Hill 60 or on the Wytschaete Ridge. He was loved by the men of the 7th N.F. as one who was willing to share their dangers, and always ready with a word of cheer in the hottest corner.
War is not all fighting Providence is on the side of the strongest commissariat. Alexander had to train, arm, clothe and feed a million men, and march them long miles across a desert country. The real foe of a man is in his own heart, and the foe of an army is in its own camp disease takes more prisoners than the enemy. Fever sniped more of our boys in blue than did the hostile Filipinos.
"Oh! well," said Blake, "you must remember that the beggars were Ghazees; they're hard to stop. Then our men were worn out and had been sniped every night for the last week or two. However, the bugler's the key to my explanation; I'll put this dab of cigar ash here to represent him.
Mac had never more than swiftly surveyed the scene direct for there was a deadly accuracy in the practice of the snipers at twenty yards range but viewed its details and the Turkish parapets through a periscope. These, too, the snipers shattered with annoying frequency, though the Turks themselves had no rest whatever in the matter of being sniped at.
We were hustled out of the trenches; it was too dark for effective rifle fire." "The trench the second detachment held should have been difficult to rush!" "But," Blake insisted, "you must remember that the beggars were Ghazees; they're hard to stop. Then, our men were worn out and had been sniped every night for the last week or two.
Margaret loved his anguish, his complete understanding of the fact that of all people it was Freddy who should have been spared. "If you had only seen him, Mike! He was so young, so fair. And he never had a chance." Michael's eyes questioned her words. "He was just sniped at the very beginning. That was the hardest part of it to know that all his talents and intellect had been wasted!"
The second drive gave us fewer birds but better sport. There were no great packs, but we got plenty to do in the way of sharp-shooting, and Gerald's keeper a singularly ambiguous title in this case succeeded by increased vigilance in preserving me from being further sniped by my enterprising brother-in-law.
The sky, at that moment, was dark. The three men lay flat at the bottom of their skiff, for they thought they perceived a threatening gesture. The boat, carried by its own impetus, was approaching the other. The commissary growled: "We won't let ourselves be sniped. Let's fire at him. Are you ready?" And he roared, once more, "Surrender... if not...!" No reply. The enemy did not budge.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking