It bears a resemblance to small billets of wood arranged at regular intervals in a sunk moulding.
Pleasant to see superiority of billetsover the hooter: that only emitted three blasts.
Went to see how Private Keen was progressing, and found the other four billets sitting in a row on his bed practising deep-breathing exercises.
Billets returned with exception of Private Merited, who was retained for sake of his motor-bike.
She thought he had possibly come to take some of the billets away.
Town-hooter announced Zeppelins and excited soldier called up my billets from their beds to go and frighten them off.
Overheard billets discussing whether it was worth while removing boots before going to bed until the Zeppelin scare was over.
It was not, however, till the next July, after a little diplomatizing in billets by the ladies, that her first visit to our house was arranged, and she came to spend a fortnight with my wife.
We were much better able than most of them to carry our belongings, to endure the fatigue of a long night march to billets or trenches; and we were waiting for the motor in which we should ride comfortably to our aerodrome.
A few sick soldiers, waiting for their billets of leave, a few recruits not yet named to any corps, and a stray orderly or two standing beside his horse, were all that remained.
The first are inverted to keep the pods off the ground, though this is a matter of trifling importance, if the billets of wood are large enough.
Oh, yes, but you will freeze if you stand still, and these billets require splitting.
There was also a rusty stove, and a very small pile of billets beside it.
Winston pointed to the few billets left and shook his head.
It was evident this man thought of everything, and she made no answer when Winston, who thrust more billets into the stove, turned to her with a little smile.
We left at night, and in the calm of nature my thoughts cleared themselves a little, after the two days in billets during which one becomes a little too material.
Our third day inbillets brings us the sweetness of friendly weather.
I am worried with rheumatism, which has spoilt many of my nights in billets these two months past.
So we entrenched and built block houses and strung wire and chopped away a clearing a few hundred feet from our billets and laid in such stores and ammunition as a few ponies could pull down, and waited.
I made a trip in December, speaking to the men in theirbillets and the Y.
In Number 10, the four billets were written by Miss Mulso, daughter of Thomas Mulso, Esq.
Footnote 36: The four billets in this paper were written by Miss Mulso, afterwards Mrs. Chapone, who survived this work more than half a century, and died Dec.
The negro stands with several billets on his shoulder, in act of shouldering others; and Oberlus, with a short cord concealed in his bosom, kindly proceeds to lift those other billets to their place.
He describes their fights; their life under cover; their lodgings, billets and experiences in the trenches, "sitting tight.
Goin' back through the billets after we was relieved I seed a place where they had liquor for sale, and I goes up to the door to get a drink.
At length a village called Iron was reached, and their various billets were allotted to each Company.
They, however, in a most ungracious manner, gave us billets on the house of a wealthy Spaniard, living in the Calle del San Antonio, which is a handsome street leading from the Grand Square.
At Planque the houses looked intact, though the interiors were strewn with rubbish; still after some cleaning up it looked quite well and by a little selection the billets became quite well furnished.
We halted for a few hours at Chene Raoul, but time was precious, and by night we were in comfortable billets across the Belgian border.
Their comrades sold him furs, and filled part of the hold up with redwood billets and bark for the stove, for he had not considered it advisable to load too much Wellington coal.
The big brass lamp overhead shed down a cheerful light, the birch billets in the stove snapped and crackled noisily, and its pipe, which was far too hot to touch, diffused a drowsy heat.
Sproatly did her bidding, and when the door closed behind him she flung off her blanket coat and thrust fresh billets into the stove.
There was no sound but the snapping of the birch billets in the rusty stove.
When the evening meal was over they drew their chairs close up about the stove, and Hastings thrust fresh birch billets into it, for there was a bitter frost.
If you ask what the billets are like, they say, "Barns and suchlike; they do the best they can for us.
We went on past some of the famous brick stacks through the funny little village full of billets to the church, where le Salut was going on.
The capital was divided into two hundred thousand shares of five hundred livres each, the whole of which might be paid in billets d'état, at their nominal value, although worth no more than a hundred and sixty livres in the market.
The extraordinary avidity of the people kept up the delusion; and the higher the price of Indian and Mississippi stock, the more billets de banque were issued to keep pace with it.
The capital was fixed at six millions of livres, in twelve thousand shares of five hundred livres each, purchasable one fourth in specie, and the remainder in billets d'état.
If he could do that, he could keep his hold upon his consciousness, the touch of the billets would remind him, the heat and the roar of the fire would keep him awake and in his right mind.
On Sunday night the boys came again and went to work without a word, and in the morning they left the usual supply of chopped billets piled up and ready for use.
And then came the chill days of autumn and the prospect of another dreadful winter, with the price of billets three per cent lower yet.
Our battalions were once more in their old billets in the neighbourhood, and as we were still at rest I had many opportunities of visiting them.
The General and his staff made their billets in a deep cave which was entered from the road.
I halted the men and said, "Boys, roll will be called in the rest-billets tonight at eleven o'clock sharp.
The Alberta Dragoons had billets in a side road that led to Bailleul.
We had some very good rest billets for the men in the area around Hooggraaf.
At Averdoignt they had one of the best rest billets they ever had, and they enjoyed it thoroughly.
Part of their billets were in huts beside the road to Dainville.
It is a wonder we did not have more fires in our billets than we did.
Deep down, in passages scooped out of the chalk were the various offices of the division and the billets for the staff.
Hill 70 being now in our grip the Division came out of the line on August 21st, and moved back to our old billets in Bruay.
They had comfortable billets but the Germans soon found out their location and sent over some very big shells.
When darkness fell and the stars looked out of the quiet sky, I said good-night to my cavalry friends, whose billets were down in a hollow to the right, and started off to find some place to sleep.
One question which was asked me again and again in trenches and dugouts and billets was--"Are we winning the war?
On Friday the 16th of August our Division left Beaufort and moved back to billets at Le Quesnel.
We detrained at Aire, and though we had only another four miles to go to our billets at Fontes, it was quite enough for anyone with a touch of the "'flu.
Next day we were relieved by the 10th Buffs and moved back to billets in Baisieux, where we rested for ten days and got through an inter-platoon football competition.
Otherwise, we had an unmolested landing and started off for our billetsin some reserve trenches about a mile and a half away.
From Villers-Bretonneux we marched to Corbie (fifteen miles east of Amiens) and got into billets there.
We had a very slow journey, and arrived at La Houssoye about midnight and found our billets there.
Petit Ronchin, Ascq (on the Lille-Tournai road), and Baisieux gave us billetsfor the following nights.
On 16th August we moved a few miles farther back across the Canal to La Miquellerie where we had as good billets as we had seen in France.
On November 12th the Battalion moved tobillets in Sutton, and received the greatest kindness and consideration there.
The London Rifle Brigade actually entrained at mid-day on the 24th, and spent the night in billets outside Poperinghe, moving off at 5.
During that day we returned to Cambrin to billets in reserve to the Sussex and Northamptons.
Emerging from the wood, we arrived at the town of Boesnighe, and that night we found billets there.
Before we left our billets at Les Choques we were told that it was to be the greatest bombardment ever known; and we had detailed instruction in the various parts we were to play.
We were relieved on the twenty-eighth by the Regiment which we had relieved four days before, the 9th King's Liverpools; and we returned to our old billets at Annequin.
We were hurried off from our billets at Les Choques and proceeded along the Lowe Canal to Locon, where we were kept until the afternoon, when, crossing the canal and marching to the right, we went on to Le Touret.
That night we were relieved by the Camerons and Black Watch 1st Brigade, and returned to our old billets at Beuvry.
Just before daybreak these Germans gave the alarm, and, as the Connaughts rushed out of their billets to the alarm post, the enemy were awaiting them with machine guns.
We were then sent back tobillets at Les Choques, the advance having been cancelled for forty-eight hours.
On the twelfth of May we left Lannoy and marched to Bethune, where we occupied billets for four days.
We did not have many casualties during our stay on the Rue-de-Bois, and returned to our old billets at Les Choques on March the thirtieth, resting and refitting until April the seventh.
On March the twelfth we moved to Essairs, to the old billets we had occupied on Christmas Day, and renewed many old acquaintances.
It was a very unenviable berth, as the majority of French people objected to have soldiers billeted on them, and our Officers were often very dissatisfied with the billets we found for them.
We then proceeded to Mont Bernischon, for three days' rest, leaving that village for Richebourg St. Vaast, where we occupied billets in reserve.
Tuesday the nineteenth we spent in resting, going into the trenches again on Wednesday the twentieth, again relieving the 2nd Royal Sussex, who took our billets at Annequin.
On June the eleventh we left for Cambrin to relieve the 1st Brigade, and put two Companies in reserve on the left of the road and in rear of Quinchy and one on the right of the road at Maison Rouge, one Company being in billets at Cambrin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "billets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
