Next day there was a phlegmon of the dorsal surface of the hand, and he was put into hospital saying that he had gotten a barbed wire prick in the trenches.
He found that the Germans had erected barbed wire defences.
Barbed wire, parapets, and trench lines have disappeared, buried under the tangled earth clumps.
I was out one night on barbed wire work, which is dangerous at any time, and was especially so with Fritz in his condition of jumpy nerves.
Fortunately there was no barbed wire, as all entanglements had been destroyed by the terrific bombardment that had been going on for weeks.
In the water, rising from the bottom of the ditch to within a couple of feet of the muddy surface, were coils and tangles and strands of barbed wire.
The 6th Brigade, at any rate, strove valiantly; sandbags were placed in position, and the front was at last protected by coils of barbed wire.
Again he found he was too fat--and what was worse got hung up on a piece of barbed wire.
All we could see of the men's camp was a palisade with several strands of barbed wire on top.
On the far side of the road was a steep bank with a barbed wire fence on the top, and from there terraced gardens sloped steeply up a hill and away from the camp.
The camp area could not have been less than eight acres altogether, enclosed by two rows of barbed wire, with arc lamps every seventy yards or so.
The farms are all fenced with barbed wire, of generally three strands, with posts of wood or, more usually, of big slabs of quarried stone.
The column now camped at the head of the Standerton-Ermelo block-house line, which was progressing at the rate of about two block-houses and one mile of barbed wire fence a day.
We suddenly came to the end of the cart-track and found a ditch full of water bordered with a barbed wire fence in front of us.
Imagine dirty sand, covering a layer of peat with water two feet underneath it, enclosed with a barbed wire fence.
At last we reached the camp and found ourselves looking at a collection of wooden huts with tarred felt roofs, surrounded by a barbed wire fence, seemingly planted at random in the midst of the wildness.
His captor secured him in the front seat, while the third man dragged the barbed wire clear of the road.
Pondering on these matters while on a round of inspection of the far-reaching wheat-lands which he controlled, he abruptly drew up his sturdy broncho in full view of a great gray owl perched on the top of a barbed wire fence-post.
If he hadn't been you'd both likely have been on the way to glory now, traveling on a barbed wire.
These areas were marked off by huge erections of barbed wire, which were partly charged with electricity, illuminated at night by powerful arc-lamps, and guarded sharply by sentries both day and night.
A wooden plank near the outer ring showed how they got across the barbed wire.
The senior nodded towards the bare stretch of muddy plough before their trench, and the tangle of barbed wire beyond.
The neutral ground is covered with a jungle of coarse grass, edged on both sides with a tangle of barbed wire.
Everything, from paving-stones torn up from the footpath to iron coal-scuttles, has been used in its construction, together with thousands of yards of barbed wire.
Men got coils of barbed wire, and lashed the various objects together with seamanlike alacrity.
The northern edge of Blake’s Wood had been felled and made into a formidable abattis, the sharpened branches of the felled trees being connected together with a perfect web of barbed wire.
Everywhere are branchless trees and stumps, shell craters roughly filled in, trenches, barbed wire entanglements, and shelters for men and ammunition.
If plain or barbed wire is used, the first three wires nearest the ground should be placed not more than three inches apart, and close enough to the ground to prevent kids from crawling under the lowest wire.
An objection has been raised to barbed wire, on account of the mohair which the barbs pull out.
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