Before half a dozen rounds had been fired an eight-inch gun back of Messines Hill started searching for the trench mortarman and his gun, and twenty-five high explosive shells plunged around us and shook our trench out of existence.
At this moment the trench mortar officer came up the trench and volunteered to assist us.
The nearest burst was within ten feet of the trench mortar position, and the officer withdrew his party, a sadder and a wiser man.
They are used as clays for puddling, for making tiles, and as a mortar in rough work.
Indies) similar types of laterite have been called "puzzuolana" and are also used as mortar and cement.
Elsewhere, at Mugheir for instance, the mortar is composed of lime and ashes.
These stones are simply placed side by side without the use of mortar or cement of any kind, but their weight and peculiar shape gave a singular durability to the pavement for which they were used.
He found cones imbedded in mortar at several other points in the Warka ruins, but the example we have reproduced is the only one in which well-marked designs could still be clearly traced.
The bricks had no mortar but the mud from which they had been made," says BOTTA (Monuments de Ninive, vol.
Real brick with good mortar could alone resist such influences, and those, no doubt, were the materials used in the Babylonian gardens.
This mortar is still employed in the country; it is called kharour.
Finally, for mortar they used hot bitumen, and at every thirty courses of bricks they put a layer of reeds interlaced.
The bricks forming the enamelled archivolt of which we have spoken are attached to the wall with a mortar in which there is but little adhesive power.
The Assyrians seem never to have used anything analogous to our mortaror cement in fixing their materials.
It is impossible to decide whether this natural mortar was allowed to fill the joints between one enamelled square and another or not.
Finally, the soil of Mesopotamia furnished, and still furnishes, a kind of natural mortarin the bituminous fountains that spring through the soil at more than one point between Mossoul and Bagdad.
Their bricks are held together by an excellent mortar of lime, and cannot be separated without breaking.
Deathly stillness reigned, relieved only by an occasional thud, as a shell or trench-mortar bomb exploded upon the ground above their heads.
Shells and trench-mortar bombs, taking us in flank, had extinguished many valuable lives.
A Boche trench-mortar knocks down several yards of your parapet.
Here followed a paragraph addressed exclusively to the Trench-Mortar Officer.
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Yet I had much ado to hide away the loose mortar that came from between the joints.
And had it not been that the fetter on my wrist, now free, served to prize out the bricks when the mortar was clear from the ends, and loosened above and below, I had been sore put to it to detach them, so firm were they in their places.
I conceived the idea of making a filter by making a good sized ball of jaspa and charcoal which I held together by mixing a little cotton batting carefully in the mortar and kneading it into a very stiff paste.
Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.
Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.
Mix all the ingredients except the cacao butter by thorough trituration (in a warm mortarif in a hurry), permit the alcohol to evaporate completely; then incorporate the cacao butter by gentle trituration for a short time only.
Mix the ingredients by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.
Mix the aristochin with the alcoholic solution of saccharin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry) and permit the alcohol to evaporate.
Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.
Mix the heroine hydrochloride with the alcoholic solution of saccharin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry), and permit the alcohol to evaporate.
Mix the antipyrine with the alcoholic solution of saccharin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry) and permit the alcohol to evaporate.
Mix the alcoholic solution of saccharin with the adalin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry), and permit the alcohol to evaporate.
Cavite was well fortified, and directly opposite its fort, on the mainland, was a heavymortar battery.
Shells from the mortar battery went over the cruiser and exploded in the water quite close to the St. Louis.
The Indiana was struck on the starboard side of the quarter-deck by a mortar shell, which exploded on reaching the second deck near the ward-room ladder; it caused a fire which was quickly extinguished.
It is beyond doubt that these hardy creatures are exactly suited for living in large towns; an environment of bricks and mortar and paving-stones suits them.
The force of the stream is so great, that if mortar is used to repair the bridge it is very soon washed away.
Where these vials are so placed in the mortar as to be visible and accessible from without, the thin glass has generally been broken.
They still come occasionally across the tombs of martyrs, evidently untouched since the day of deposition, and within them, or in the mortar by the head, the vases of blood are still found.
With regard to the beacon, the sea at high-water had lifted part of the mortar gallery or lowest floor, and washed away all the lime-casks and other movable articles from it; but the principal parts of this fabric had sustained no damage.
From the elevated position of the building, the mortar gallery on the beacon was now much lower, and the lime-buckets were made to traverse upon a rope distended between it and the building.
It was particularly mentioned that by the exertions of James Glen, one of the joiners, a number of articles were saved from being washed off the mortar gallery.
When as many stones were built as comprised this day's work, the demand for mortar was proportionally increased, and the task of the mortar-makers on these occasions was both laborious and severe.
This platform was to be used as the site of the smith's forge, after the beacon should be fitted up as a barrack; and here also the mortar was to be mixed and prepared for the building, and it was accordingly termed the Mortar Gallery.
This state of weather was no less severe upon the mortar-makers, who required to temper or prepare the mortar of a thicker or thinner consistency, in some measure, according to the state of the weather.
The mortar in all the joints was perfectly entire.
The two remaining stones were, however, laid in their places without mortarwhen the bell on the beacon was rung, and, all hands being collected on the top of the building, three hearty cheers were given on covering the first apartment.
Dig the mass out of the charcoal with the point of a knife and rub it in the mortar with water.
The mortar in which the stamps work has copper plates amalgamated with mercury inside, and copper tables with amalgamated plates over which the pulp passes after oozing through a fine screen in front of the mortar.
A good pocket lens, cheesecloth screen, and small iron pestle and mortar are often useful.
The coarseness of the mortar screens is subject to infinite variety, according to individual preference.
To test an ore for gold, take a pound of it, crush in mortar and pass through a fine sieve.
The clerk accordingly repaired to her house and there, finding her at table with Bentivegna, set down the mortar and did the priest's errand.
It is useless to disguise the fact that, during the first few weeks of the Division's acquaintance with these trenches, the enemy had an ascendancy in trench-mortar warfare.
A Stokes mortarhere well repaid the labour of bringing it and its ammunition forward, enabling the infantry to rush these places after a short bombardment.
The trenches were in a terrible state, and the men of the medium trench mortar batteries, engaged in cutting the German wire, suffered more even than the infantry, and earned the admiration of the latter by their devotion to their task.
By this means it was generally found possible to silence any individual mortar in about a quarter of an hour at most, and to prevent it from getting the exact range, and then knocking in a whole section of trench at leisure.
A shower of bombs from the top of the spoil heap drove them off, and as they were retreating a shell from a Stokes mortar was seen to drop in the centre of a group.
D" Company of the Machine-Gun Battalion was attached to the 108th Brigade, together with its own Stokes Mortar Battery.
Z/49 Trench Mortar Battery was attached to the 36th Division for this operation.
He was in command of a trench mortar battery, and advanced with the infantry to the attack.
On the British side, also, big trench-mortar bombardments, aided by the Divisional Artillery, were periodically arranged.
Captain Miller's company of 15th Rifles, west of the village, was pounded with artillery and mortar fire, the trenches being obliterated and heavy casualties suffered.
The walls were of stone, masoned with clay mortar and were about two feet thick, pointed outside of the house and inside of the cellar rooms with lime and sand mortar, and plastered inside of the rooms and chamber with mortar of lime, &c.
The new propellant permitted as great a range of fire without damage to the mortar in firing.
The Lupton plant had difficulty in securing the heavy machinery it needed for this and for other mortar contracts, its machinery being held up by the freight congestion.
It proved to be one of the toughest nuts to crack in the whole mortar undertaking.
Shelby, Ohio, for the drawing of steel tubes for the mortar barrels.
These big mortars had to have mobile mountings, and the contract for the mortar carts we placed with the International Harvester Co.
Pittsburgh, contracted to build 510 rough forgings of mortar barrels at its Christy Park plant.
Because of the many troubles encountered in this work the various stove makers in the summer of 1918 formed an association which they called the Six-inch Trench-mortar Shell Manufacturers' Association.
This was the largest mortar which we produced, its barrel having a diameter of approximately 10 inches.
In this terrible hole they wallowed and struggled, shovelling the concrete mortar into place and ramming it down.
All of the cranes were whipped in, and up from the cylinder poured the shovellers, looking as if they had been freshly rolled in a mortar bed.
Then I gave the corpse of the chicken Christian burial under a fold of the window curtain, disposed of the fried eye of the Albino, and transformed myself into a mortar for the time being, taking potato-bombshells according to my calibre.
Recovering from the shock, with a cry of warning from Hua, and a prayer scarcely articulated, we shot like a bomb from a mortar into the very teeth of a frightful gale.
For this purpose it is made of about the consistency of mortar and spread on with a trowel in the ordinary way.
