That was all, but the enemy infantryman waited, as if listening.
The enemy infantryman crawled off in another direction, the two Americans following him as closely as they dared.
Only by the rifle and bayonet of the infantryman can the decisive victory be won.
The infantrymanhad not been jealous of Guynemer; he had felt his fascination, and instinctively he divined a fraternal Guynemer.
His heroic death is not more glorious than that of the gunner defending his gun, the infantryman rushing out of his trench, or even that of the poor soldier perishing in the bogs.
I heard an infantryman once refer to these native troops, in the hearing of one of their British officers, in rather a disrespectful way.
The infantryman is the man who undergoes most of the dangers and risks, the real fighting man, and the man too who experiences the greatest hardships and discomforts.
The poor infantryman gets enough hell on the surface and from the air without adding troubles from below.
The total weight borne by the regular Russian infantryman was nearly 58-1/4 pounds.
Barring fire, however, the infantryman has no chance against the lance, with the speed and momentum of the mounted man behind it.
Trenches dug in the foregoing manner and protected by barbed wire will give the infantryman a chance to live.
I say irreducible, for it is to the interest of the infantryman who has to carry practically all his belongings on his back, to reduce his load as much as possible consistent with efficiency and comfort.
The English infantryman stands for all ages as the ensample of heroic patience, which words or cartoon fail utterly to convey.
In a sense our loss of a hundred guns at Cambrai a few weeks later became a blessing in disguise, for it restored the scales in favour of the Infantryman as the decisive agent on the field of battle.
Under battle-conditions life at one remove from the front line was rarely much more agreeable than in the line itself, and was less provided with those compensations which existed for the Infantryman near the enemy.
The mounted division certainly did the same, but it takes an infantryman thoroughly to appreciate the joys of tramping in full marching order over the sand.
It would seem to me that an infantryman with a short and handy rifle like our new Springfield could fill his magazine just before the enemy's charge arrived and "stop" four or five men armed with bayonets or any other edged weapon.
It is just as strongly my opinion that the American infantryman as a type is correspondingly superior.
Presently for just a tiny fraction of time the round cap of a German infantryman appeared above the earthen protection.
The infantryman plies a spade a week for every hour that he pumps a rifle.
The others had only just time to swallow their charms before the Infantryman threw the net onto a great table, which seemed to be cut out of one vast diamond, and fell on his face on the ground.
But what are we to do,” sniffed Cathay for the twentieth time, and all the while the Infantryman was going steadily on, dragging the wretched netful after him.
And a tall Infantryman of the Under Folk was towing them away from Merland as swiftly and as easily as a running child tows a captive air balloon.
For instance the artillery man looked upon the infantryman as the man who protected his guns and kept off the enemy while he killed them.
The infantryman naturally looked upon the artillery as the arm to support him in time of trouble and prepare the ground while he did the dirty work.
Luckily for the future of the Corps, the infantryman was generous enough to attribute at least part of our failures to the appalling ground.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantrymanshook his head.
At Williamsport I exchanged horses with an infantryman while he was lying asleep on a porch, and had completed the transaction before he was sufficiently awake to remonstrate.
In crossing a field in the pursuit, a short distance from our gun, I passed near a young infantryman lying entirely alone, with his thigh-bone broken by a Minie-bullet.
While speculating among ourselves as to what it meant, a half-naked infantryman came almost breathless into our midst and announced that both brigades had been captured, he having escaped by swimming the river.
We saw a Yankee infantryman a short distance off, hurrying along with gun on shoulder.
An infantrymanusing a matchlock musket carried several yards of matchcord, prudently burning at both ends.
It spoke once, and the infantryman who had fired dropped, a trickle of red down his forehead.
The Scottish infantryman gave only a passing glance as he threw his weight against the oar.
The remaining infantryman still sat against the wall, his unfired musket on the floor beside him.
He waved the pistol at the infantryman sitting against the wall.
Winston motioned the infantryman forward as he lifted himself over the gunwales.
The table caught the third infantryman in the groin as he attempted to raise his weapon and sent him sprawling backward.
As he struggled to regain his balance, he knocked aside the body of the Commonwealth infantryman who lay sprawled across its barrel, the smoldering linstock still in his dead grasp.
If an infantryman or an artilleryman attempted to give an adequate account of the conditions, and the horrors which they occasioned, he would not be believed.
True, the infantryman in the front line is not always in the best position to direct artillery fire, but, on the other hand, he is frequently the only man who knows anything at all.
Hal and Chester found themselves together, with a British infantryman and a French sergeant of cavalry completing their crew.
Almost at the same moment, and as a German infantryman raised his bayonet to finish his work, a hail of rifle fire swept the Boche troops.
Ray called to the irate infantryman to hold on a moment, he would explain; but Ray was in arrest and could give no orders.
The Landsknecht was the prototype of the infantryman of the 16th and 17th centuries, but his right to indicate the line of evolution had to be wrung from many rivals.
Moreover, in raids for devastation and booty, the slow-moving infantryman was often a source of danger to his comrades.
If somebody had whitewashed old Differs's face he couldn't have turned a sicker shade," said Tommy Dot, the only other infantryman present at the moment.
Thanks to the storm-shed without, the hall was dark, and for a moment he could only vaguely see the huge bulk of the infantryman standing erect before him, the very attitude indicative of stern official purpose.
A French infantryman writing to a friend in this country says: "At night we crawl forward and dig ourselves in.
The hidden infantryman waited until they were half way up the slope, and then sprang out of his hiding place with a cry of "Now, lads, give them hell!
A wounded private of the Buffs relates how an infantryman got temporarily separated from his regiment at Mons, and lay concealed in a trench while the Germans prowled around.
Their immediate concern, as that of every infantryman had been in every charge throughout the war, as they crossed No Man's Land, was the wire entanglements.
Only by the rifle and bayonet of the infantrymancan the decisive victory be won" (Sir D.
At no time has the reputation of the British infantryman been higher, or his achievement more worthy of his renown.
Despite the enormous development of mechanical invention in every phase of warfare, the place which the infantryman has always held as the main substance and foundation of an army is as secure to-day as in any period of history.
The British infantryman has always had the reputation of fighting his best in an uphill battle, and time and again in the history of our country, by sheer tenacity and determination of purpose, has won victory from a numerically superior foe.
The infantryman remains the backbone of defence and the spearhead of the attack.
