So Gass and Bratton and Shields and all the other artisans fell to fashioning dugouts from the tall pines and cedars, hewing and burning and shaping, until at length they had transports for their scanty store of goods.
As the great barge had started down the river, the two pirogues which had come so far, joined by the cottonwood dugouts laboriously fabricated during the winter months, had started up the river, manned by thirty-one men.
This bombardment has small effect in the mountains, as, owing to the limited number of men one can employ at one time, these are able to protect themselves in dugouts excavated in the solid rock.
His work for three mornings had been to escort a certain observation plane which had been sent each day to watch the development of a reserve line of dugouts well in the rear of the German front line.
French trench shelters vanished and in Caures Wood and La Ville Wood men were buried in the dugouts or blown to fragments.
Dugouts were constructed at short intervals all along the line, some of them being large caves thirty feet below the ground.
The Germans entombed in dugouts near by readily trooped out and surrendered when they saw the futility of resistance.
The trenches were stormed right and left of the salient, one party clearing them as they proceeded, the other invading the dugouts for prisoners.
American artillery replied; but all traces of German dead and wounded were removed by the time the Americans had emerged from their dugouts after their barrage was raised.
Three or four British tanks came to grief, but their casualties were small, since by this time the Australians were masters of the situation as the Germans were tumbling out of their trenches and dugouts and surrendering in batches.
The surprise of the attack seemed to have dazed and bewildered the Germans; many of them hid in their dugouts and tunnels and then surrendered.
A German observatory and a number of shelters and dugouts were destroyed and much damage wrought to the enemy defenses.
Meanwhile the British army had found exceptional quarters in the captured Hindenburg trenches with their wonderful dugouts and network of front-line and communication trenches, all ready for occupancy.
But most of the American troops were above ground, having established themselves in trenches and dugouts which they had cleaned, strengthened, and improved and protected by barbed-wire entanglements.
It was connected by tunnels with dugouts and defenses underneath Lens, and the Germans, appreciating its value, clung to it tenaciously.
The Germans had constructed strong subterranean defenses, undermining the whole place with tunnels and dugouts reenforced with concrete.
But they blew up a number of excellent concrete dugouts and returned with large quantities of material and valuable papers.
Two companies of infantry, without dugouts to shelter them, held their ground on the right of the position through a heavy artillery preparation and kept the enemy from bringing up reenforcements throughout the fight.
The French discovered trenches and dugouts and two large tunnels almost intact owing perhaps to the fact that the Germans feared to destroy them lest the explosions would give the alarm.
Many times during these days the Canadians had flooded the city with gas which soaked down into the tunnels and dugouts and stifled men in their sleep, or they died with their masks on if they delayed a second too long.
The parapets were turned toward the enemy, dugout entrances were changed, and new dugoutsbuilt to protect the troops.
The dugouts were everywhere, and the way the helmeted heads popped out as we passed, inquiringly, made me think of the prairie dog towns I had seen in Canada and the western United States.
Captain Godfrey explained to me, as we went into the mess hall for lunch, that the dugouts were really pretty safe.
It looked like a good place for a concert, and so I quickly gathered an audience of about a thousand men from the dugouts in the embankment and obeyed their injunctions to "Go it, Harry!
We all ran for the safety holes or dugouts in the side of the embankment.
In these dugouts every phase of the battery's life except the actual serving of the guns went on.
They had been pretty well blasted to pieces by the British bombardment, but a good many of their deep, concrete dugouts had survived.
Bombproof dugoutshad been constructed deep in the ground.
Barring light, there was no modern convenience which these dugouts (although that is no fit name) did not possess.
Further researches along communicating trenches and into dugouts failed to yield any more.
The sail came down with a rush, the anchor swung overboard, and half a dozen canoes and dugouts shot from under the shadow of the wharf and across the strip of water between it and the sloop.
The boat, one of the crazy dugouts of which every plantation had store, held on its stealthy way, but being over close to the bank presently ran upon a sand bar.
When Ned, Bob, Jerry, and some of their comrades, led by an officer, approached one of thedugouts there was no sign of life.
At other places there were large excavations where dugouts were constructed, and there relief parties rested and slept if they could between periods of duty.
In some places heavy concrete or wooden dugouts were constructed, well under ground, though the Germans did more of this than the Allies, the Hun trenches being very elaborate at times.
Trenches were shallow and scanty, and dugouts were almost lacking.
Most of them were in dugouts or funk holes, and did not make a severe resistance.
In one of the German dugouts we captured, a lieutenant told me he found a sign reading, "We fear no one but God and our own artillery.
The shell-torn steeple of Flirey church still leaned over the road; and the grewsome Limey Gondrecourt front, its deserted dugouts resembling grinning skulls, elicited a sigh and a prayer for its dead legions.
These dugouts are sometimes sixty feet long, and are used for whaling and long voyages in rough seas.
These are sometimes made of a sort of scroll of bark, and sometimes they are dugouts made of cotton-wood logs.
We were occupying at this time some splendid dugouts and trenches that we had taken from Fritz; they were made of chalk as was also the cookhouse.
It was so manifestly impossible to give them any sort of a burial that the order was issued to fill in the dugouts where they lay and this was done by heaving the ground in on top of them.
They bite you singly and in squads, They have a whole parade; They form a skirmish line and sweep Across each hill and glade; But seek their dugouts when you think Your grip is firmly laid.
But the ingenious Kanaka, not content with his coracles, had gone one better, and copied them in dugouts of solid timber.
The anchor was hardly down before a perfect fleet of canoes flocked around us, all carrying the familiar balancing outrigger, without which those narrow dugouts cannot possibly keep upright.
The clearing of the trenches and dugouts should not be carried out by men who have been affected by the gas.
Dugouts can be ventilated by producing air currents in them by means of special anti-gas fans.
It is desirable to protect stretcher bearers' dugoutswith a view to putting casualties in them.
All dugouts must have at least two openings, one on the opposite side of the traverse or angle from the other.
Shelters with two openings are the easiest to ventilate and where possible, dugouts with only one entrance should have a second opening made, even a very small one, to assist in ventilation.
The only efficient method of clearing dugouts from gas is by thorough ventilation.
In dugouts provided with a single exit at the end of a short passage, the best results are obtained if the fire is placed in the center of the floor of the dugout and at a height of about 9 inches.
Dugouts are chambers tunnelled into the ground with twenty feet or more of undisturbed earth above them.
In dugouts provided with two or more exits, the fire should be placed at the inner end of one of the exit passages.
In dugoutsprovided with a single exit at the end of a long and nearly horizontal passage, the best results are obtained if the fire is placed about one-third of the distance from the inner end of the passage.
It should be noted, however, that the protection of dugouts for troops in the front line of trenches is usually inadvisable on account of the delay involved in getting men out in time of attack.
The dugouts made were never deep enough and afforded no protection.
How can I prevent my parapets and dugouts from falling in?
Dugouts must always be on the side of the trench toward the enemy.
Grim and determined men they were that went back to theirdugouts and trenches, heartened for the task of war for human freedom by Harry Lauder.
In front of their track, at the other end of the field, were two breastworks built of sand-bags covering some timbered dugouts and protected from sudden attack by two belts of barbed wire.
A significant sign forbids more than thirty men to congregate at once in this exposed spot, as sometimes these Y M C A dugouts are blown to atoms by a shell.
It is sent over in exploding shells, and sinks in a heavy invisible vapor about the sleeping men, creeping into their dugouts and trenches or enveloping them around the guns or in the shell holes.
In the dugouts behind the trenches, in the deserts of Egypt, or in the jungles of Africa, it has been forced to make a home in every kind of shelter.
The ground shook beneath us and fragments from the trenches and dugouts caved in about us from the shock.
Dugouts are often made very comfortable with windows, tiled floors and furniture taken from neighboring shattered chateaux.
We were all collected together and waited in the dugouts of the dressing station until dusk.
If men are caught in the open they stand perfectly still and do not look up, for on the aeroplane photographs faces at certain heights show light; dugouts are covered over with trees, straw or grass.
Now it’s useless except that the timber and the furniture come in useful for our dugouts and the making of “duck walks,” the grated walks which line the bottom of the trenches.
Soup, coffee, bread and sausages were all ready in the dugouts and were consumed by the victors.
The key to the enemy's defence was Point 79: the trench here, and a collection of dugouts around it, had been almost untouched by our heavy guns.
As they reached the trenches east of Point 11 the Huns could be seen coming out of their dugouts and flying in all directions, many with their hands up.
The remainder of that day passed quietly; the Battalion were in dugouts round the southern and eastern outskirts of Ovillers, in support to the Oxfords, comparatively comfortable and secure, and expecting no immediate call.
Gun-pits and enormous new dugouts were constructed in Hébuterne.
A 'Tommy's cooker' was served out to each section, but there were no dugouts in which to use it, and in the open the mud and rain were an effectual hindrance.
Its greyish-white sides were pitted and scarred by shell-fire, but none the less in its chalky bowels it contained plenty of dugouts filled with machine gunners, who took full advantage of their dominant position.
Company Headquarters were established some 800 yards behind the front line, at Pimlico, where a platoon of A Company was placed in dugouts at the disposal of O.
No attack had been expected in the wild weather, and the enemy were in their cellars and dugouts just sitting down to breakfast.
Further two platoons of C Company which were returning from a working party in Wrangel when the bombardment started, were placed in dugouts near Pimlico.
Constant streams of motor vehicles rumble through the villages on their way up the steep road, bearing ammunition, food and supplies of all sorts, to the batteries, trenches and dugouts on the peaks.
The troops only left the dugouts for important defense work.
Endless labor had been expended by the Germans not only in fortifying the place but in constructing dugouts that were well furnished and homelike.
Some of the dugouts had two stories, the first being reached by a thirty-foot staircase.
Among the dugouts several things were found, such as field glasses, medical apparatus, rifles, bombs, and so on.
Following these attacking waves there came what were called "moppers up," whose task was to deal with any of the enemy who might have hidden in dugouts and so escaped the attention of the attackers.
The dugouts were deeply mined and well timbered, and would provide shelter for a large garrison.
The companies were housed in mined dugouts made by the enemy, and again evidence of the industry of the Germans was seen in the mined dugouts, armoured sentry boxes, substantial revetments and belts of wire entanglements.
There were no deepdugouts and there were not sufficient shelters for the men to sleep in.
The companies were trained to take shelter in the dugouts in the event of a heavy bombardment and immediately on its cessation to re-man the front line.
Battalion headquarters were housed in dugouts in the wood adjoining the White Chateau at Potijze, in front of which was a large cemetery.
Many men in the field near Mesnil, enduring the mud of the thaw, and the lice, wet, and squalor of dugouts near the front, were cheered by that church tower.
After that happy time, the enemy bent his line there and made the salient a stronghold, and dug deep shelters for his men in the walls of his trenches; the marks of the dugouts are still plain in the sides of the pit.
The enemy lines are much broken and ruined, their parapets thrown down, the mouths of their dugouts blown in, and their pride abased.
They lived in these dugouts in comparative safety and in moderate comfort.
This happened in several places, though all the enemy dugouts were kept equipped with pioneer tools by which buried men could dig themselves out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dugouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
