In this they were gathering socks, asphyxiating masks, warm clothes.
But we have declared that nothing can kill us tomorrow but asphyxiating gas.
Krupp, after listening respectfully, said: "May it please Your Majesty, I have had a little experience with asphyxiating gas.
Within the alcove, however, there still hung an asphyxiating warmth, which seemed to trickle into the room and gradually disperse in tiny puffs.
And all these vapours poured in at once, in oneasphyxiating gust, so offensive, so violent, as to choke him.
These were backed up by a tremendous artillery bombardment under the throwing of asphyxiating bombs; but all were beaten off with great slaughter to the enemy, and forty-five prisoners fell into our hands.
No sooner had this started than the enemy opened a violent bombardment with asphyxiatingshells and shrapnel on our trenches and on our infantry as they were withdrawing.
The attack was originally fixed for Tuesday, the 20th, but since all chances of success depended on the action of the asphyxiating vapor it was postponed, the weather being unfavorable.
No asphyxiating gases have been employed by us at any time, nor have they yet been brought into play by us.
Asphyxiating gas of great intensity was projected into their trenches, probably by means of force pumps and pipes laid out under the parapets.
The details of the gas apparatus employed by them are given separately, as also those of the asphyxiating grenades, bombs, and shells of which they have been throwing hundreds.
The asphyxiating gas was projected into the trenches by means of force pumps and pipes laid under the parapets, the German sappers having carefully placed these conductors.
It was in this year, when Germany made use of asphyxiating gas for the first time, that Canada received its most stinging blow.
And as for chivalry, how can it live in the midst of machine-guns, asphyxiating gases, and liquid flames?
For, having sworn in solemn convention at the Hague to abstain from the use of asphyxiating gases, they entered no definite protest, though public opinion ran high on the subject.
Had we only known, he was trying to describe to us the terrible effect of the asphyxiating gas on his comrades who were less educated than he!
A week before the Germans first used this method they announced in their official communique that we were making use of asphyxiating gases.
Soon, to the horrors of machine-guns and of high-explosive shells of a calibre and intensity of destructive force never before known, were added the diabolical engines for pouring over the field of battle asphyxiating gases.
Will asphyxiating gas, and destruction of non-combatants and neutrals on land and sea, trouble him?
Pretty neat from Boches who've been pumping burning paraffin into our trenches, and suffocating platoons of men with asphyxiating gases, ever since May.
Much havoc is wrought by asphyxiating gases which drift across the front-line into the back-country.
The reason for this sudden crisis was that the Huns were bombing the villages behind the lines with asphyxiating gas.
The Declaration concerning projectiles diffusing asphyxiating or deleterious gases; see below, [p] 113.
It was charged by the Allies that in the fighting in Flanders late in April the Germans used asphyxiating gases, which placed thousands of the allied troops hors de combat, including many of the Canadian division.
The Germans began at this time the use of asphyxiatinggases in their attacks.
The French reported that two simultaneous attacks had been made east of the Ypres-Staden railway, in which these asphyxiating gases had been employed.
It was at the commencement of the second battle of Ypres, on the evening of April 22nd, referred to in Paragraph 1 of this report, that the enemy first made use of asphyxiating gas.
It is precisely this limitation that contains the unequivocal confession that the French asphyxiating gases work with deadly effect when used in large quantities.
Precautionary measures to be observed in attacks on trenches into which shells with asphyxiating gases have been thrown.
The enemy owes his success in this last attack entirely to the use of asphyxiating gas.
June 20--Germans make a strong attack on the French lines in the Western Argonne, the French stating that it was preceded by a bombardment with asphyxiating projectiles.
The French reported that two simultaneous attacks had been made east of the Ypres-Staden Railway, in which these asphyxiating gases had been employed.
Very characteristic is the twist of the French official direction: 'The vapors spread by the shells with asphyxiatinggases are not deadly, at least not when used in small quantities.
Here we have a conclusive proof that the French in their State workshops manufactured shells with asphyxiating gases fully half a year ago at least," says the semi-official Telegraph Bureau.
It was at the commencement of the second battle of Ypres on the evening of April 22, referred to in paragraph 1 of his report, that the enemy first made use of asphyxiating gas.
The vapors spread by means of the shells with asphyxiating gases are not deadly, at least when small quantities are used and their effect is only momentary.
Instead of blaming the Germans for utilizingasphyxiating gases, we might better blame ourselves for permitting the enemy to outdo us in inventive genius.
People in fits of ecstacy told others about the murderous effect of the asphyxiating bombs of the celebrated inventor.
As long as we believed in the marvel of Turpin’s asphyxiating powder, Turpin was hailed as a hero.
He made use of the asphyxiating gas cloud and gas bombs so frequently on this part of the front that the British soldiers became expert in donning their hoodlike masks and in using respirators.
Asphyxiating gas also had been used in an attempt to break the British front on the left, on both the north and south sides of the Ypres-Roulers railroad.
Up to midnight the Germans seemed to be victorious; then, however, the British drove them from the hill only to be driven away in turn by the use of asphyxiating gas.
On that date, however, the entire front from Bellewaarde Lake to Shelltrap, a line three miles in length, was bombarded with asphyxiating shells.
At Broodseinde, the extreme eastern point of the allied front, the Germans made a desperate attempt to take the salient, using asphyxiating and other bombs again and again on the men of the Twenty-eighth Division of the British.
The first use of asphyxiating gas was by the Germans during the first battle of Ypres.
The time from the sounding of the gong to the moment when the cellar door was banged, and we were safe from explosives and asphyxiating bombs, was just three minutes and five seconds.
Captain Mahan reported that he had voted against forbidding asphyxiating bombs, etc.
Very interesting were the discussions regarding bullets and asphyxiating bombs.
The asphyxiating gases employed may be divided into three general classes, viz: Suffocating gases, the most common of which are carbonic and nitrogen.
What a pleasant alternative from the asphyxiating Underground or the tortoise-moving omnibus would not a fast, comfortably fitted line of river steamers be!
The method of systematic lying has been shown to the life in connection with the use of asphyxiating gas.
The method should never be employed by unskilled persons or those unacquainted with the dangers to human life from noxious or asphyxiating gases.
Where the circumstances will permit, and this is apt to be so for ground-squirrel destruction, the burrows may be filled with some asphyxiating or poisonous gas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asphyxiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
