The horrid screech of the mitrailleuse drowned the hissing of the shells; the whole breadth of the long avenue was covered by a kind of white mist.
The mitrailleuse spat hate and revenge over our heads.
I pointed out to her that nothing more delicate than a mitrailleuse had yet been invented.
And he drew Allerdyce off the top of the mitrailleuse as one might gather a wet rag.
Hope sprang into their minds that they might capture the mitrailleuse abandoned halfway up.
Two 4-pounder batteries and one mitrailleuse battery.
A destructive fire met every attack; a single round of mitrailleuse fire, for instance, struck down twenty-one men of the Baden assailants.
At one o'clock the French, having evidently been reinforced, took the offensive, after a preparatory cannonade and mitrailleuse fire.
The two Westphalian regiments advanced steadily under the storm of shell and mitrailleuse fire till they suddenly reached the edge of a deep ravine hitherto unseen.
Once I was nearly shot (by the sentry guarding a mitrailleuseconcealed in the English cemetery on which I stumbled quite accidentally).
The German soldiers then fired a mitrailleuse and their rifles upon the people, and the people fell on all sides.
Witnesses recount how a great crowd of men, women, and children from Aerschot were marched to Louvain, and then suddenly exposed to a fire from a mitrailleuse and rifles.
Your mitrailleuse hammers out a stream of bullets as you pass over and dive, nose down, to get out of range.
My mitrailleuse had been mounted the night before.
You hear the staccato barking of his mitrailleuse and see him pass from under the German's tail.
I could see his gunner working the mitrailleuse for fair, and felt his bullets darn close.
When I went to bed four of the members of that shattered mitrailleuse company climbed three flights of stairs to see that I had a comfortable room.
The bomb-proof over our heads came in for a shower of French mitrailleuse bullets, which so frightened our cook that he upset a can of savoury horseflesh soup, which he had prepared for us.
Another interesting fact worth recording is, that during the battles about Sedan, not a single case of wound by a mitrailleuse bullet was met with by any member of our staff.
On the night of the 13th I commanded a section of corps which a mitrailleuse had raked.
From the forest in the rear the mitrailleuse was trained on the French.
The French mitrailleuse corps pressed close on their comrades' heels, placing weapons at vantage points that had escaped the fire and showering a leaden hail upon the main body of Germans retreating up Corbeaux Hill.
The deficiencies in your contributor's evidence as to the totality of loss do not, however, invalidate his conclusion that, out of given numbers engaged, the mitrailleuse kills fewer than the musket.
A young chap named Strauss, whose mother was an American, had the mitrailleuse in his car, and stood upright, firing upon the Germans without being touched by the heavy rifle fire that they directed against him.
He was really the principal hero of the occasion, having stood bolt upright in his car and riddled the German forces with his mitrailleuse until the few survivors turned and fled.
One morning, just before dawn, they crawled up close to the Germans and hid themselves in a brushy watercourse--mitrailleuse set up and ready for action.
During this time very heavy fire, mitrailleuse and rifle, was being kept up, and shells were being very rapidly fired.
A dozen artillerymen were pushing a mitrailleuse up behind the overturned wagon.
The troops around them, hidden in the smoke, began to cheer frantically; the mitrailleuse whirred and rolled out its hail of death.
I witnessed an example of the cool daring of these mitrailleuse drivers during the fighting around Malines.
The War dog is a direct product of the War, but you never yet met him collecting for a hospital, or succouring the wounded, or assisting the police, or hauling a mitrailleuseif he could help it.
Occasionally he makes the mistake of running across a mitrailleuse battery with its dog-teams needing reinforcements, or tries to billet himself on a military pigeon-loft and meets a violent death.
He had shown his appreciation of the true sporting instinct by going out to Belgium and joining the army as a mitrailleuse man.
Deep and bitter were the curses which he poured upon those vandals; but I stood beside him, and I did not hear half that he said, for my eyes were fixed on the mitrailleuse standing on the garden path under the trees.
Fortunately for us, the Germans were concentrating their energies around Termonde, and the mitrailleuse standing on the path amongst the trees at the end of the garden seemed to have gone asleep.
The mitrailleuse men are picked dare-devils, and their work takes them constantly into situations which require a trained taste for their enjoyment.
When the fusillade proved insufficient the mitrailleuse mowed them down.
Around the milkmaids and before the wineshops the people began talking in a low voice; they pointed to the soldiers, the mitrailleuse levelled at the streets, the walls covered with the still wet placard signed by M.
As soon as the soldiers were within range she discharged the mitrailleuse at them.
He provided the St. Florentin redoubt with a mitrailleuse and a piece of 4; that of the Rue Royale, at the entrance of the Place de la Concorde, with two pieces of 12.
We passed by several of these helmeted watchers, and now and then we came to a deeper recess in which a mitrailleuse squatted, its black nose thrust through a net of branches.
Up and up they flew, on the trail of the Taube, and on flew the Taube, faster still, till quarry and pack were lost in mist, and the barking of the mitrailleuse died out.
Another turn, and another outlook; but here it was the iron-rimmed eye of the mitrailleuse that stared across the ravine.
But she was never satisfied with that and finally obtained permission to fly at the front but in a biplane machine, with a Frenchman as mitrailleuse operator.
I heard my mitrailleuse begin to spit at the exact fraction of a second that we came within range, and the enemy gun never once barked a reply.
Any ordinary target, such as a hostile gun, would, it was expected, be accurately ranged by the mitrailleuse before it was ready to open fire for effect.
Another writer, Hanzelet, describes amongst other devices a mitrailleuse of four barrels which was fired from the back of an ass or pony.
Reffye held that the work of a mitrailleuse should only begin where that of the infantry rifle ceased.
Among them was a young Belgian lieutenant who used to make a "bag" of the Germans he killed eaeh day with his mitrailleuse until the numbers bored him and he lost count.
On the night of the 13th I commanded a section of corpses which a mitrailleuse had raked.
Even the automobile and auto-mitrailleuse men cannot follow them there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mitrailleuse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
