All the magnificent trees which surrounded the place were cut down to afford space for the artillery and various new lines of fortifications and barbed-wire entanglements were constructed.
Trenches were dug, wire entanglements were constructed, and hundreds of buildings that had been allowed to spring up over the military zone of defense were demolished in order to leave a clear field of fire.
In short, I think it was as much the affliction of the Ugolino family as my own entanglementsthat drove me to seek my fortunes on the other side of the world.
Oh, curse these engagements, curse all these silly fretting entanglements of lecture and article!
In exactly the same way the ordinary London Movement gives scope for the restless and progressive impulse in human nature without the risk of personal entanglements or any inconvenient disturbance of the milieu.
But the attack died out at last without the German entanglements being passed or their earthwork being reached.
Scores, hundreds of men fell before they could clear the entanglements to form up in the open, dropped as they climbed the parapet, or even as they stood up and raised a head above it.
They had dug a well-planned maze of trenches behind broad wireentanglements before a single German shell arrived to disturb their work.
Nevertheless, the defence-works inside the wood were quickly taken one after another, but more strong points protected by wire entanglements untouched by our artillery fire were encountered.
The Russians had such steel-wire entanglements placed at the foot of all their positions, and where success depended on the dash and speed of the infantry, they succeeded in stopping them and exposing them to a heavy fire.
The haze of old associations, of personal entanglements and habitual recognitions had been dispelled from every stage and process of the social training of men.
In preparing for the attack the destruction of the wireentanglements was one of the first considerations.
Indeed, so close did they get to the bursting shells that many of them reported that they were waiting on the outskirts of the remnants of the enemy's entanglements while the barrage was still down in the Boche front line.
In addition, the whole position was heavily and skilfully protected by strong wire entanglements throughout.
It was therefore arranged that raids should be carried out on a large scale on both brigade fronts, so that serious damage could be done to the entanglements and dug-outs, prior to the launching of the offensive.
The trench was reconnoitred throughout its length, and it was found to have fallen in to a depth of about four feet, and to have been completely filled in with entanglements of barbed wire.
The men again reported that they were able to wait in the remnants of the enemy's wire entanglements while the barrage was still on his front line.
The advance had the precision of clock-work, the infantry following the tanks without difficulty through gaps in the most formidable wire entanglements in the world.
Moreover, strong wire entanglements running down obliquely from Gallipoli were encountered.
She did not endeavor to explain or adjust the moral and ethical entanglements of the situation.
There have been so many entanglements since, so much rowing and discussion, that I've rather lost my bearings.
The 31st made an attack that morning, but got hung up on the German wire entanglements and lost heavily.
Just at dawn I peeped over the parapet, and it looked as though some one had been hanging out a wash; their wire entanglements were full of German uniforms.
On the road leading up to the fort we saw some tree-branches which had been hurriedly placed as obstacles, and higher up wireentanglements had been commenced at the last moment.
French trenches at distances of from thirty to fifty yards, stretched across the land, and between them were wire entanglements and other obstacles.
To dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which, while seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and loss of wealth.
To see a dungeon lighted up, portends that you are threatened with entanglements of which your better judgment warns you.
To see raspberries in a dream, foretells you are in danger of entanglements which will prove interesting before you escape from them.
As matchwood the stout stakes supporting the entanglements snapped under the impact of the leading Tank's snout.
With the exception of the mud and numerous shell-craters there was little in the way of obstacles to impede their advance, for almost the whole of the wire entanglements fronting the British parapet had been blown away by shell-fire.
Other Tanks were engaged in similar operations, keeping parallel to the line of direction of the hostile trenches and methodically uprooting the entanglements in as many minutes as it had taken the Germans days to set up in position.
From the corner of his eye he made out the sinister lines of wire fronting the German trenches, the criss-cross of barbed entanglements standing out like silver filigree work in the cold rays of the electric light.
By one of those freakish circumstances the entanglements had escaped the devastating hail of shells.
It was comparatively quiet now in the trenches, in front of which barbed-wire entanglements had been hastily put up.
For an hour or two the terrific artillery duel kept up, the Germans hoping to blast away all trenches, barbed wire entanglements and sweep away any opposing forces so that the ground wrested away might be gained back.
He started on a run over the shell-torn ground, with what remained of the barbed wire entanglements here and there.
Finally, the higher entanglements were strengthened in such a way as to make the complete scheme a death-making obstacle of no mean order.
Barbed-wire entanglements connected with the electric supply of the city covered acres of ground; stakes were driven point upwards to form obstacles; man-traps innumerable were constructed, and the fields all around were sown with mines.
His squadron was trapped, and the only road of escape was barred by entanglements of barbed wire.
Its main tactical use was to break down wire entanglements and to clear out redoubts and nests of machine-guns.
We came to the wire entanglements which ran along in front of the trench ten to fifteen yards away from the reverse slope of the parapet.
But taken in relation to the trench opposite the entanglements are laid with occasional V-shaped openings narrowing towards our trench.
The line of entanglements does not run parallel with the trench (p.
I slung the machine gun on my shoulder, sharpened my bayonet with a piece of sand-paper, took the first line o' barbed wire entanglements at (p.
Bombarding wire entanglements seems to be an artillery pastime; when we smash those of the Germans they reply by smashing ours, then both sides repair the damage only to start the game of demolition over again.
The priest's share in the interview, indeed, resembled that of one who removes the stones, clustered branches, or whatever entanglements impede the current of a swollen stream.
Although the guns and emplacements were shattered the bombproofs and ammunition chambers remained intact, and, running back, formed a perfect network of trenches and entanglements right around the semicircular valley.
It was hoped the Turkish trenches would be rendered untenable and the barbed wire entanglements cut by the fire of the ships, but these expectations were not realized.
He played on right up to the German wire entanglements when, throwing his pipes aside, he caught up the bayonet of a comrade who had just been shot by a German officer and at once attacked the latter.
Human thought has begun to free itself from individualentanglements and dramatic necessities and accidental standards.
That is the gesture of an artistic mind which repudiates, with an impatient sharpness, all the entanglements of the ordinary world.
These entanglements of the actual world would be an overwhelming obstacle to a socialism less vigorous than that of Wells.
Desertion of duty and the quick repudiation of entanglements make him healthy and sensible and give him a sense of purpose in things.
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