One French company, led by devoted officers, counterattacked there five times with the bayonet into the sweep of those bullets, and by this sacrifice saved their flank.
It was decided by the Australian General that his men should go straight into the attack with bayonet and machine gun, not waiting for artillery protection which would tell the enemy what was coming.
For nearly a week they wore them constantly, sleeping in them, officers giving orders in them, and the men fighting and dying in them and charging with the bayonet in them.
First one party and then another of these Irish Guards made those bayonet charges against men with machine guns and volleys of rifle fire.
And then, on that rainy Sunday night, for the first time in twenty months, we found ourselves walking freely in a public street, without a Rebel bayonet before or behind us!
After each bayonet charge the Provincials coolly withdrew to the summit, under the accumulating fire of the returning mountaineers, who quickly gathered in their rear.
On our voyage home from the Azores he afforded rare fun to all of us, the men dressing him up in regular sailor rig, and the carpenter's mate carving a rifle and sword-bayonet for him out of a bit of wood that was handy.
Beginning on October 15th, or as near that time as practicable, they have fencing, and the use of the bayonet and small-sword.
The corporal sent his native cook to the rear door, while he fixed his bayonet to his rifle and stood guard over the front door.
After all, men cannot be handling rifle and bayonet every waking minute--they would become abnormal creatures if they did, of use only in war time; and it would be a terrible world if war were our end and aim.
His bayonet misses the upper body of the strong man and crashes hard against his hip bone.
Bayonet clashed on bayonet, as regiment after regiment were locked in close mortal combat.
With a mighty shout the blue line swept across the railroad, took the ditches at the point of the bayonetand captured two hundred grey prisoners.
A big, broad-shouldered brute is trying to bayonet a boy of fifteen.
A grey soldier was fighting a duel to the death with a magnificently dressed officer in blue, bare bayonet against bare sword.
The one spotless thing about him was his musket and thebayonet he carried at his side.
Then we took the trenches and found the wounded, between twenty and thirty, lying in the trenches with bayonet wounds, and some shot.
On the extreme left our supports waited until the wall of vapor reached our trenches, when they charged through it and met the advancing Germans with the bayonet as they swarmed over the parapets.
The child screamed when the soldier struck it with his bayonet but not afterward.
On a side road the corpse of a civilian was seen on his doorstep with a bayonet wound in his stomach, and by his side the dead body of a boy of 5 or 6 with his hands nearly severed.
A young man had been hacked with the bayonet until his entrails protruded.
One of the second line, the man on the left, stepped aside and drove his bayonet with both hands into the child's stomach, lifting the child into the air on his bayonet and carrying it away on his bayonet, he and his comrades still singing.
After we got back to them I distinctly saw German soldiers come out of their trenches, go over the spots where our men were lying, and bayonet them.
Two witnesses speak to having seen the body of a young man pierced by bayonet thrusts with the wrists cut also.
In the garden of a house in the main street bodies of two women were observed, and in another house the body of a boy of 16 with two bayonet wounds in the chest.
A child of 3 with its stomach cut open by a bayonet was lying near a house.
Two eyewitnesses relate that a German soldier shot a civilian and stabbed him with a bayonetas he lay.
So they just went in with cold steel, and I believe I am right in saying that the first Ottoman Turk since the last Crusade received an Anglo-Saxon bayonet in him at five minutes after 5 A.
Another took his bayonet and fixed it and thrust it through the child.
Rarely is a charge with the bayonet made in the course of a war, though the bayonet is the most terrible of weapons.
They got the bar off and tore open the gate, and found a sentry waiting for them with a rifle and fixed bayonet outside.
After what seemed an endless time, but was actually about three-quarters of an hour, we reached a road which we believed was patrolled, as it was here that I had seen the flash of a bayonet in the day time.
He had been twice wounded, twice decorated by the Turks, and once by the Germans with the Iron Cross, and now he was returning as a suspect, with a sentry with a fixed bayonet at his heels whenever he moved.
But all we do is drill and have grenade practice an' drill again and then have bayonet practice an' drill again.
He ain't much of a prisoner," said the man, pointing his bayonet at the German.
We were brought up at the point of the bayonet and compelled to sign a deed of trust, transferring all our property to defray the expenses of this war made on us by the State of Missouri.
That'll take the pint offen his bayonetmighty certainly.
The boys were in a buzz of delight at getting the guns they had so longed for, and Si's first duty was to end an exuberant bayonet fencing match between Gid and Harry which was imitated all along the line.
Let a guard go about with him, sergeant, and let him feel the end of a bayonet if he plays us any tricks.
Once clear of the camp they halted, and the slant rays of the sun struck flashes from bayonet and from gun-barrel as the ranks closed up until the big pith helmets joined into a single long white ribbon.
From the fixed bayonet there fluttered a little green flag with the crownless harp.
We pursued a section of the Royal Fusiliers in command of a corporal until he halted his men for bayonet exercise.
Sykes had not only stowed away my original impedimenta but had also managed to find room for various articles of vertu which had enriched my private collection, to wit: (1) One Bavarian bayonet of Solingen steel.
Each rank knocked an imaginary bayonetaside and pointed at invisible feet.
His bayonet gleamed like a silver needle in the moonlight, and he was alone in his vigil.
On a side road the corpse of a civilian was seen on his doorstep with a bayonet wound in his stomach and by his side the dead body of a boy of five or six with his hands nearly severed.
The fighting at Torcy was characteristically American; the Marines advanced yelling like Indians, usingbayonet and rifle.
As he stood there alone with fixed bayonet the King and the Queen shook him by the hand and congratulated him.
In the garden of a house in the main street, bodies of two women were observed, and in another house, the body of a boy of sixteen with two bayonet wounds in the chest.
Over his outer garments were his belt, brace straps, bayonet and ammunition pouches.
Two witnesses speak of having seen the body of a young man pierced by bayonet thrusts with the wrists cut also.
At Eppeghem, on August 25th, a pregnant woman who had been wounded with a bayonet was discovered in the convent.
Two eye witnesses relate that a German soldier shot a civilian and stabbed him with a bayonet as he lay.
The capture of a place at the bayonet point is generally a grim business, in which instant, unconditional surrender is the only means by which bloodshed, a deal of bloodshed, can be prevented.
I was ordered to throw my hands above my head, a bayonet point being held at my stomach to enforce the command.
The bayonet got home in the luckless Tommy's shoulder and passed clean through from front to back, the ugly point of the bayonet protruding about three inches.
Between each two cells stood a soldier with his rifle ready to jab his bayonet to right or left at an instant's notice.
I knew very well, if that sentry got within bayonet reach of me, that my days were ended.
It was a swine of an Engländer who had infringed the rule and the bayonet was the instrument for correction, to be plied with the utmost effect.
After I had dodged the bayonet the soldier had swung his rifle round bringing the butt end smartly down upon my head and had knocked me silly.
One grabbed his rifle and lowering the bayonet in a threatening manner ordered the priest to pick up his sacred treasures.
By the threat of the bayonet he was compelled to stand up in front of these degenerate members of the human race and the girl behind the counter, whose laughter could now be heard ringing above the frantic shrieks of the soldiers.
Some strove to shut out the terrible sight by covering their faces with their hands, but the bayonet point speedily induced them to look as commanded.
Then a German soldier, by an adroit movement of his rifle which he held reversed, pricked my leg with the bayonet and at the same time brought the butt against my head with a resounding thwack!
The weaker burdened prisoners lagged, but the bayonetrevived them.
It was madness to argue with a bayonet in the hands of an infuriated German sentry.
We entered the stockade, and saw many lying almost dead for want of assistance and from loss of blood, caused by gun-shot and bayonet wounds.
Old acquaintances crippled with shots, the gore protruding from the bayonet wounds, their clothes and flesh burning all the while.
A pull of a trigger--a push of a bayonet an inch this way or that--makes the difference.
Trim, losing all patience, --one home thrust of a bayonet is worth it all.
Bayonet and steel, rapine and torch had failed; but now the process of pulverizing was to come.
Wounded, he still fought with his pistol, till a bayonet thrust stretched him senseless.
Never did men set their breasts against thebayonet with such reckless abandon.
Doubtless the rule of the bayonet is the only government possible for such a barbarous people--and the Romanoffs have not allowed it to rust.
The bayonet has been held at his throat while strangers reviled his religion.
Ned, and the soldier, who had presented his bayonet so sternly, was greeted as if he had been an old friend.
The German fire had "eased up" while the bayonet charge was on.
I closed up very close to the Germans with my bayonet on my rifle and prevented some of them who tried to leave the bunch and get into the bushes from leaving.
Sacina: "I was guarding the prisoners with my rifle and bayonet on the right flank of the group of prisoners.
His eyes were bloodshot, and he nervously repelled with his bayonet all who approached him.
At the bayonet attack on the straw mannikin this company even went astray.
The bayonet should be driven in forcibly and furiously right in the waist up to the muzzle of your rifle.
This is, of course, the excuse of every overbearing authority, which, having aroused irritation by its own mismanagement, can conceive of no better way of allaying that irritation than the bayonet and the bullet.
There was a short, sharp struggle during the day in Fleet Street, between some of the fanatics and the Guards, which was stamped out by repeated bayonet charges which killed and wounded many.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bayonet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bayonet; blade; dagger; impale; knife; lance; pierce; spear; spike; spit; stab; stick; transfix
