But first I shall send a man down one of the communication trenches to learn if the enemy are numerous in the second-line trenches.
Then some shells landed in first-line trenches nearby.
We will make fast time back," ordered Lieutenant De Verne, "as we know there are no enemy hereabouts in the first-line trenches.
Half an hour later the shell-fire against the front-line trenches abated, though the barrage fire still continued to fall between the first and second lines.
After a long day in the French trenches, varied by visits to advanced observation posts, from which the Prime Minister could plainly see the German front-line trenches, the party returned through the stricken city of Albert.
We were in one of the so-called "villages negres" of the second-line trenches, the jolly little settlements to which the troops retire after doing their shift under fire.
In front, facing the hill-slope and not a half-mile distant, was the geometric arrangement of sandbags that marked the contour of the German first-line trenches.
Bruce had had a pleasantly lazy day with his friends in the first-line trenches.
East of Ypres all the German first-line trenches which we captured remain in our hands, in spite of two counter-attacks, which were repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy.
We were, however, unable to retain those of the enemy's second-line trenches which we had occupied in the morning.
Yesterday evening we captured the German front-line trenches east of Festubert on a mile front, but failed to hold them during the night against strong counter-attacks.
These troops had been driven from their first-line trenches by a strenuous German attack, and had fallen back to the next line with heavy casualties.
They succeeded in gaining a foothold at certain points in the French first-line trenches, but were thrust out later by counterattacks.
It was from this ridge that they dominated the Vallarsa, and their first-line trenches were on its edge.
Along the whole front between the Wippach River and the sea fierce fighting developed, and the Italians in some places succeeded in penetrating the Austrian first-line trenches and in maintaining themselves there.
Nobody in the front-line trenches or on the shell-swept area behind ever expected to leave the peninsula alive.
At the same moment, in the open country to the north of Perthes, the troops surmounted the three first-line trenches and, preceded by our artillery, made a quick march towards the York trench and occupied it almost without striking a blow.
From our position in the valley we watched our shells demolish the enemy's front-line trenches on the hill well to our left.
The Turks in the front-line trenches, completely demoralized, fled to the rear.
Some of these caverns existed also right in our support-line trenches, and it was common opinion that old galleries in the chalk ran under No Man's Land and across to the German lines.
Whenever the "heavies" wished to shell the enemy front line the infantry were ordered to withdraw from the front-line trenches.
The meat arrived in France in splendid condition, and was carefully watched from its arrival at the ports in France to its consumption in the front-line trenches.
These periscopes enabled the men in the front-line trenches to look over the top with comparative safety.
For the construction of the narrow-gauge railroad used in the combat areas behind the front line trenches a special type of fabricated track was designed.
It really is rather amazing the unanimity of everybody on this subject, and it must be the same behind the German front-line trenches.
The white lines are the French third-line trenches.
Presently my attention was called to the lines of German captive balloons, which are moored some miles behind their first-line trenches.
Meanwhile, the wounded were being carried in from the first-line trenches by the stretcher-bearers who, by the way, are some of the real heroes of the war.
The front-line trenches of the opposing armies, of course, run in two practically parallel lines.
They had expected long delays, frequent disappointments and protracted periods of training before they should reach the front-line trenches.
Those swine of Germans compelled our poor fellows to slave in their first-line trenches.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "line trenches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
