In the latrines it was as dark as pitch, so that, though we stood within a few yards of the sentry, we could watch him in safety.
The "Blue Boy" visited the latrines four times in a couple of hours and examined the bars with care, but without finding anything wrong.
Considering that there was a sentry permanently posted outside the windows of the latrines it needed considerable skill and judgment to avoid being detected.
One very cold night about a week later I was standing in the latrines and watching the sentry stamping backwards and forwards on his 20-yard beat, when it seemed to me just possible that the thing might be done.
Forced to do coolie labour, to dig latrines for native soldiers, incredibly humiliating, such was their lot!
Did he get the treatment that custom ordains an officer should have, or did he also dig latrines and cook his bit of dripping meat over a wood fire like a "shenzy" native?
Latrines should be so managed that no smell from them should ever reach the men's tents.
Great care should be taken not to place latrines near existing wells, nor to dig wells near where latrineshave been placed.
Waste water and liquid ejection are absorbed by the ground; but a camp unprovided with latrineswould always be in a state of danger from epidemic disease.
The latrines should be placed to leeward with respect to prevailing winds, and at as great a distance from the tents as is compatible with convenience.
The latrines were two boxes hung over the side of the ship.
Pit latrines were dug whenever troops remained in an area for more than a few hours.
After several months some engineer officers, under the leadership of Major Fred Saint of Elmhurst, Illinois, organized a sanitary detail, and succeeded in building deep septic tank type latrines that would not cave in.
When filled to within 2 feet of the surface, such latrines are discarded, filled with earth, and their position marked.
Latrines for the men are always located on the opposite side of the camp from the kitchens, generally one for each company unit and one for the officers of a battalion or squadron.
Numerous latrines must be constructed in the trenches' earth.
The latrines must be dug immediately upon reaching camp--their construction must not be delayed until the camps have been pitched and other duties performed.
All latrines and kitchen pits are filled in before the march is resumed.
The exact location of the latrines should be determined by the commanding officer, or by some officer designated by him, the following considerations being observed: 1.
A smell of antiseptics from the door of the dressing-station and of lime and latrines mingling with the greasy smell of the movable kitchen not far away.
The wind came to them full of a stench of latrines and of the exhaust of motors.
Latrines for immediate use are dug and marked in each area; additional latrines are to be prepared by units and the strictest orders issued to prevent fouling the ground.
Latrines are to be made very deep, as space is much restricted.
They were obliged to clean the streets, and the latrines of the Crown Prince [The heir to the German throne had his headquarters at that time in Charleville, the captured French town to which the Americans were taken.
The latrines are partly on the English and partly on the Turkish system, 1 to every 10 men, cleanly kept.
Turkish latrines have been fitted in the annexes of the palace.
But the latrines would be dug, the camp would be kept free from foulness, and the new draft would not die untimely deaths, but would live to fight the enemies of their country.
Perhaps the men in charge would be men of higher mental calibre; they would order latrines to be dug, and all garbage to be burnt or buried.
In some camps nolatrines were dug, no supervision was exercised.
Latrines and cook-houses had to be improvised, and the usual foot inspections were made.
Why the dickens did they leave us moping here: working in the blazing heat, and crawling to the latrines in the chilly nights?
Flies swarmed everywhere, and were a great cause of disease, as, after visiting the dead and the latrines they used to come and have a meal on our jam and biscuits!
In the dormitory and the latrines lights were kept burning through the night; a provision necessary, if for no other reason, because the services in the church at night-time had to be kept up and attended by the whole house.
Pits had been dug for latrines daily because the ground was so swampy the pit would fill with water by night.
The latrines were built in the buildings, as is Russian custom, and were full to overflowing.
We abhor the idea of our cleaning the latrines ourselves, but what we should really abhor is the idea of making use of dirty latrines.
We should see that our latrines are kept thoroughly neat and clean.
Our latrines are perhaps most responsible for rendering the air impure.
When troops are likely to remain in trenches for a considerable time drainage should be arranged for, and latrines and dressing stations should be constructed in trenches.
Use the latrines and don't go elsewhere to relieve yourself.
In open latrines cover your deposit with dirt, as it breeds files and may also be full of germs.
There were many such latrines in the prison, so we will confine our remarks to one only.
Cooking places for the different castes and latrines were constructed in each yard; a military guard room, food and clothing stores were also supplied.
Now, at the risk of being a little tedious, we propose to describe in some detail the "day" latrines in use in this old jail.
Make sure that nothing is left behind, that premises are cleaned, all rubbish burnt, and latrines filled.
Have trenches cleaned of all rubbish, latrines disinfected, drinking water supplied.
In open latrines cover your deposit with dirt, as it breeds flies and may also be full of germs.
Again, using local materials, the screens around the unroofed showers and latrines were made of woven palm leaves.
The tasks of attending the latrines will normally fall to the sanitary squad who can be assisted by those who are convicted of the crime of failing to keep their lines clean.
Nor should food ever be placed near latrinesor any place where there is decaying matter.
These latrines should be well protected with sandbags to keep the enemy from finding them and training a machine gun on them, in the knowledge that they were very likely to get some of the men who used them during the day.
In Lhasa, Tibet, there are nolatrines either public or private.
They provide decent latrines and have good sanitary usages as to the surroundings of their houses.
Orientals and Moslems now have such different habits from Occidentals thatlatrines are very differently constructed for them and for Occidentals.
Therefore bathing is unavoidable, and is put under the same conventionalization as that which surrounded latrines in the cities of Europe fifty years ago.
Within a generation the public latrines in the cities of continental Europe have been made far more secluded and private than they formerly were.
Country manor houses had latrines on the ground floor and/or the basement level.
A large set of lodgings had attached to it latrines consisting of a small cell in which a seat with a hole was placed over a shaft which connected to a pit or a drain.
Building contracts began specifying the provision of adequate cesspits for the privies at town houses, whether the latrines were built into the house or as an outhouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "latrines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
